Snob vs Bragger - What's the difference?
snob | bragger |
(colloquial) A cobbler or shoemaker.
* 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, p. 57:
(dated) A member of the lower classes; a commoner.
* 1844 , (Charles Dickens), Martin Chuzzlewit :
* 1913 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Poison Belt :
(informal) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes.
* 1958 , (Arnold Wesker), Roots :
As nouns the difference between snob and bragger
is that snob is while bragger is a person who brags.As an adjective bragger is
(brag).snob
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia snob)- The snobs were also kind to him, and gave him a pair of boots which they assured him were of a type and quality reserved entirely for officers […].
- 'D'ye know a slap-up sort of button, when you see it?' said the youth. 'Don't look at mine, if you ain't a judge, because these lions' heads was made for men of men of taste: not snobs .'
- I tell you, sir, that I have a brain of my own, and that I should feel myself to be a snob and a slave if I did not use it.
- If wanting the best things in life means being a snob' then glory hallelujah I'm a ' snob .
