◙ noun 1. a person with an exaggerated respect for high social position or wealth who seeks to associate with social superiors and dislikes people or activities regarded as lowerclass • 势利的人，谄上欺下的人 [with adj. or noun modifier] a person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to those of other people • 自以为懂行者，自命不凡的人 »a musical snob. 自以为懂音乐的人。
1. late 18th cent. (originally dialect in the sense 'cobbler'): of unknown origin; early senses conveyed a notion of ‘lower status or rank’, later denoting a person seeking to imitate those of superior social standing or wealth. Folk etymology connects the word with Latin sine nobilitate 'without nobility' but the first recorded sense has no connection with this