outsnob

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ snob.

Verb

outsnob (third-person singular simple present outsnobs, present participle outsnobbing, simple past and past participle outsnobbed)

1. (transitive) To surpass in snobbery; to be snobbier than.
   • 2010, Thomas J. Schaeper, Kathleen Schaeper, “Yanks and Brits”, in Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite, New York, NY: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 50:

     Some of these types also outsnobbed British students in looking down at some of their fellow Rhodes Scholars – those who were not from the “good” universities back home or who refused to smooth their rough American edges while in Britain.

   • 2023 May 12, Caitlin Lovinger, “Place for Reactions and Solutions”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     File the term in this clue — “What a zythophile loves” — under how to outsnob a self-described oenophile when you prefer BEER.