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Snob vs Snib - What's the difference?

snob | snib |

As nouns the difference between snob and snib

is that snob is a cobbler or shoemaker while snib is a latch or fastening for a door, window etc.

As a verb snib is

to latch (a door, window etc.).

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

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    snib

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) A latch or fastening for a door, window etc.
  • *2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 99:
  • *:He did not like me coming in except if I was going to bed. I heard him saying to my maw about a snib for the door.
  • (obsolete) A reprimand; a snub.
    • (Marston)

    Verb

    (snibb)
  • (Scotland) To latch (a door, window etc.).
  • *1890 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Sign of the Four , VI:
  • *:‘Window is snibbed on the inner side. Frame-work is solid. No hinges at the side. Let us open it.’

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