Snob vs Cocky - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between snob and cocky

is that snob is a cobbler or shoemaker while cocky is abbreviation of cockatoo; used when pretending to talk to such a bird, as in "hello cocky".

As an adjective cocky is

overly confident, arrogant and boastful.

snob

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia snob)

(colloquial) A cobbler or shoemaker.

* 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, p. 57:

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 […].

(dated) A member of the lower classes; a commoner.

* 1844 , (Charles Dickens), Martin Chuzzlewit :

'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 .'

* 1913 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Poison Belt :

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.

(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 :

If wanting the best things in life means being a snob' then glory hallelujah I'm a ' snob .

Derived terms

* snobbery * snobbish * snobby

Coordinate terms

* posh * social climber

Anagrams

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cocky

English

Etymology 1

From .

Noun

(cockies)

Abbreviation of cockatoo; used when pretending to talk to such a bird, as in "hello cocky" .

* 2005 August 5, The World Today: Town seeks environmental accreditation , radio programme, transcript,

Visit the local store at Coles Bay and you?re greeted by a talking cocky called Jim.

(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A cockatoo farmer.

* 1907 , , Human Toll , Gutenberg Australia eBook #0607531,

‘We camped one evening at Narrangidgery Creek, close b? a cocky ?s ?umstead.’

* 1946 , , My Career Goes Bung , Gutenberg Australia eBook #0900281,

Burrawong was one of the larger stations in which much of the good land of the district was locked. The cockies usually had to follow the main road, but since the drought the owners had opened one of their permanent water-holes so that the poorer settlers could cart water to their homesteads.

* 2001 November 19, Shelley Horton, Media Dimensions: Episode 15 , TV programme, transcript,

And stories in the bush may not seem relevant in the big smoke, but try telling that to a cocky .

* 2010 , Jackie French, A Waltz for Matilda , unnumbered page,

Now — well, Moura was scarcely Drinkwater, but it was more than just a cocky farm too.

(New Zealand, informal) A sheep farmer.

Usage notes

* (farmer) In both Australia and New Zealand, forms such as sheep cocky'' (sheep farmer) and ''cow cocky'' (dairy farmer) exist. In New Zealand, ''cocky'' is often synonymous with ''sheep cocky , due to the relative importance of the industry.

Synonyms

* (bird) birdie * (farmer) crofter; see also farmer

Derived terms

(farmer) boss cocky, cocky's joy

Etymology 2

From .

Adjective

(er)

Overly confident, arrogant and boastful.

* 1881 November 29, Sir Ernest Mason Satow, Letter to William George Aston'', 2008, Sir Ernest Mason Satow, Ian Ruxton (editor), ''Sir Ernest Satow's Private Letters to W.G. Aston and F.V. Dickins: The Correspondence of a Pioneer Japanologist from 1870 to 1918 , page 66,

Hodges has made a great fool of himself, by getting gradually cockier' and ' cockier .

* 2008 , Gerard Thomas, Nightwarrior Chronicles: All Girls? Team , page 85,

The confidence that was temporarily humbled now returned with a cockier attitude.

* 2011 , Melanie Harvey, Indispensable Friendship & Death Collide , page 204,

You smiling your oh-so-perfect smile and me with the biggest, cockiest' grin on my face you can ever imagine. I would have been the ' cockiest man alive that night knowing you were going home with me.

Synonyms

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