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English
Etymology
From snob + -ish.
Pronunciation
Adjective
snobbish (comparative more snobbish, superlative most snobbish)
- Having the property of being a snob; arrogant and pretentious; smugly superior or dismissive of perceived inferiors.
c. 1948, George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys:St Cyprian's was an expensive and snobbish school which was in process of becoming more snobbish, and, I imagine, more expensive.
Synonyms
Translations
having the property of being a snob
- Bulgarian: снобски (bg) (snobski)
- Czech: snobský
- Danish: snobbet
- Dutch: snobistisch (nl)
- Esperanto: snoba
- Finnish: snobistinen
- French: snob (fr), snobinard (fr)
- German: dünkelhaft (de), schnöselig, blasiert (de), großtuerisch, hochnäsig (de), bourgeois (de); (also and of British conditions chiefly) snobistisch, versnobt (de)
- Greek: ακατάδεκτος (el) (akatádektos), κενόδοξος (el) (kenódoxos)
- Hungarian: sznob (hu)
- Latin: superbus (la), ēmunctus
- Macedonian: на́дуен (náduen), на́дмен (nádmen), го́рделив (górdeliv), сно́бовски (snóbovski)
- Maori: whakakake, ihu tū, whakaparanga
- Persian: متفرعن (fa) (motefar'en)
- Plautdietsch: huachnäsich
- Portuguese: esnobe (pt)
- Romanian: snob (ro), (rare) snobistic
- Russian: сноби́стский (ru) (snobístskij), сно́бский (ru) (snóbskij), надме́нный (ru) (nadménnyj), высокоме́рный (ru) (vysokomérnyj), тщесла́вный (ru) (tščeslávnyj), кичли́вый (ru) (kičlívyj), гордели́вый (ru) (gordelívyj), спеси́вый (ru) (spesívyj), чванли́вый (ru) (čvanlívyj)
- Spanish: esnobista, pijo (es) (Spain), fresa (es) (Mexico), cheto (es) m (Rioplatense)
- Swedish: snobbig (sv)
- Ukrainian: сно́бський (snóbsʹkyj)
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