Dictionary
snob (snŏb)
n.
1. One who tends to patronize, rebuff, or ignore people regarded as social inferiors and imitate, admire, or seek association with people regarded as social superiors.
2. One who affects an offensive air of self-satisfied superiority in matters of taste or intellect.
snobbish (snŏb’ĭsh)
adj.
Of, befitting, or resembling a snob; pretentious.
Thesaurus
snob
noun
One who despises people or things regarded as inferior, especially because of social or intellectual pretension: elitist. Informal snoot.
snobbish
adjective
Characteristic of or resembling a snob: elitist, snobby. Informal high-hat, snooty, stuck-up, uppish, uppity.
Wikipedia
snob
A snob, guilty of snobbery, is a person that adopts the world-view that other people are inherently inferior for any one of a variety of reasons including supposed intellect, wealth, education, *ancestry, etc. A snob imitates the manners, adopts the world-view and affects the lifestyle of a social class of people to which he or she aspires. That “right” is not necessarily a birth-right: a Pseudo-intellectual is a type of snob.
A snob is perceived by those being imitated as an “arriviste”, perhaps nouveau riche or parvenu, and the elite group closes ranks to exclude such outsiders, often by developing elaborate social codes, symbolic status and recognizable marks of language. The snobs in response refine their behavior model (Norbert Elias 1983).
Oh ya, why am I writing this?
Alright, now let’s go to the point of writing this. I’m quite sure everyone would have in one time or another met snobbish people in our lives. We would have met these snobs in school, university, at work or even in public. In the recent months, I came across someone at work, who probably is the youngest there, acted snobbishly, childishly, oh well, I guess she is probably pampered too much at home.
