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noun

plural of snoot

as in snobs

a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferior our neighbor is a tiresome old snoot who keeps talking about how the neighborhood is going downhill

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as in noses

the part of the face bearing the nostrils and nasal cavity an overbearing snob who walks around with her snoot up in the air

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as in frowns

a twisting of the facial features in disgust or disapproval a snoot that suggested that she thought that she was better than the rest of us

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snoots

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verb

present tense third-person singular of snoot

as in disdains

to show contempt for after some modest success, the singer began to snoot the very people who had helped her get her career off the ground

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Noun

Beloved by coffee snobs and design aficionados alike, the Alessi stovetop coffee maker blends high-quality brewing with a form that is beautiful enough to leave out all day long.

— Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 27 June 2026
The move shocked snobs everywhere, who could not believe that the future Queen of England had chosen a ring from a common catalogue.

— Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 26 June 2026

Definition of snobs

Noun

In one scene, a pair of revellers dance naked just outside the fence of the Calvary Cemetery, thumbing their noses at the reaper while the Manhattan skyline towers in the distance.

— Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 4 July 2026
What made the difference was an angle here, a line there, small dimensional differences in eyes, noses, mouths.

— John Madson, Outdoor Life, 1 July 2026

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Verb

The title character disdains the common folk, and the play’s complicated political discussion and harsh, jagged poetry aren’t what most picnicking playgoers are after.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
Krikorian said a more traditional law enforcement approach should trade street sweeps for a greater focus on worksite enforcement – something Homan has advocated for, but which Trump disdains.

— Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 7 Feb. 2026

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Noun

With their snouts, the pigs would feel each beat of my heart the way a human would feel a silver dollar that had been flipped in the air then caught in an open palm, flipped and caught, coming up heads or tails, whichever side had been called when the coin was at its apogee.

— Will Mackin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
Many hot weather dogs have longer snouts.

— Madeline Gunderson, USA Today, 29 May 2026

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