Snob vs. Snub — What's the Difference?

Snob is a pejorative term for a person who believes there is a correlation between social status (including physical appearance) and human worth. Snob also refers to a person who feels superiority over those from lower social classes, education levels, or other social areas.

A snub, cut or slight is a refusal to recognise an acquaintance by ignoring them, avoiding them or pretending not to know them. For example, a failure to greet someone may be considered a snub.

A person who looks down on or snubs people who that person considers as being of a lower social class.

To ignore or behave coldly toward; slight.

A person who feels an undue sense of intellectual or aesthetic superiority

To dismiss, turn down, or frustrate the expectations of.

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.

To check the movement of (a rope or cable running out) by turning it quickly about a post or cleat.

(colloquial) A cobbler or shoemaker.

To secure (a vessel, for example) in this manner.

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

To stub out (a cigarette, for example).

(archaic) A workman who works for lower wages than his fellows, especially one who will not join a strike (a scab#Noun).

A deliberate slight or affront.

(Cambridge University) A townsman, as opposed to a gownsman.

(Nautical) A sudden checking, as of a rope or cable running out.

A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors.

Unusually short

A townsman.

Conspicuously short.

A journeyman shoemaker.

(of a nose) Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.

A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick.

Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.

A person regarded as arrogant and annoying

A deliberate affront or slight.

A sudden checking of a cable or rope.

(obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.

(transitive) To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.

(transitive) To turn down insultingly; to dismiss.

(transitive) To check; to reprimand.

(transitive) To stub out (a cigarette etc).

(transitive) To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.

(transitive) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.

To sob with convulsions.

To sob with convulsions.

To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.

To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check.

To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.

A knot; a protuberance; a song.

A check or rebuke; an intended slight.

An instance of driving away or warding off

A refusal to recognize someone you know;

Refuse to acknowledge;

Reject outright and bluntly;

Unusually short;