snob

• n. スノッブ、俗物根性; 似非インサイダー

語源は不明で、もともとは靴職人、行商人を意味するが、後に1796年頃にケンブリッジ大学の学生たちが平民、商人、行商人を指す言葉として借用し、やがて文学的な意味で俗物、鼻持ちならない人を指す言葉として使われるようになった。また、19世紀初頭、オックスフォード大学とケンブリッジ大学は、一般学生の名前にラテン語のsine nobilitate（文字通りnon-noble、sineの「none」、「without」、nobilitateの「noble」、語源的にはnobleと同じ）というラベルを貼っていたという語源的解釈も一般的である。非貴族。

snob

snob: [18] Snob originally meant a ‘shoemaker’. Cambridge University students of the late 18th century took it over as a slang term for a ‘townsman, someone not a member of the university’, and it seems to have been this usage which formed the basis in the 1830s for the emergence of the new general sense ‘member of the lower orders’ (‘The nobs have lost their dirty seats – the honest snobs have got ’em’, proclaimed the Lincoln Herald on 22 July 1831, anticipating the new Reform Act).

This in turn developed into ‘ostentatiously vulgar person’, but it was the novelist William Thackeray who really sowed the seeds of the word’s modern meaning in his Book of Snobs 1848, where he used it for ‘someone vulgarly aping his social superiors’. It has since broadened out to include those who insist on their gentility as well as those who aspire to it. As for the origins of the word snob itself, they remain a mystery.

An ingenious suggestion once put forward is that it came from s. nob., supposedly an abbreviation for Latin sine nobilitate ‘without nobility’, but this ignores the word’s early history.

snob (n.)

1781, "a shoemaker, a shoemaker's apprentice," of unknown origin. It came to be used in Cambridge University slang c. 1796, often contemptuously, for "townsman, local merchant," and passed then into literary use, where by 1831 it was being used for "person of the ordinary or lower classes." Meaning "person who vulgarly apes his social superiors" is by 1843, popularized 1848 by William Thackeray's "Book of Snobs." The meaning later broadened to include those who insist on their gentility, in addition to those who merely aspire to it, and by 1911 the word had its main modern sense of "one who despises those considered inferior in rank, attainment, or taste."

1. People want to buy designer labels for snob value.

人々がブランド品を買いたいのは虚栄心を満たすためだ。

2.She was an intellectual snob .

彼女は知性が優れていると思っている。

3.I was a thorough little academic snob .

私は当時、目も当てもなく、独りよがりの小学校の憤青だった。

4.Kenneth is an arrogant,rude,social snob .

ケネスは傲慢で乱暴で権力者と交わることしか好きではない勢利鬼だ。

5.She 's such a snob ！

彼女はこんな勢いだった！