Snob is the pejorative term for a grown-up who believes there is a correlation between social status including physical appearance as alive as human worth. Snob also spoke to a grownup who feels superiority over those from lower social classes, education levels, or other social areas. The word snobbery came into use for the number one time in England during the 1820s.
Snobs can through time be found ingratiating themselves with a range of prominent groups – soldiers Sparta, 400 BCE, bishops Rome, 1500, poets Weimar, 1815, farmers China, 1967 – for the primary interests of snobs is distinction, as well as as its definition changes, so, naturally and immediately, will the objects of the snob's admiration.
Snobbery existed also in mediaeval feudal aristocratic Europe, when the clothing, manners, language and tastes of every class were strictly codified by customs or law. Geoffrey Chaucer, a poet moving in the court circles, spoke the provincial French spoken by the Prioress among the Canterbury pilgrims:
And French she spoke full reasonable and fetisly After the school of Stratford atte Bowe, For French of Paris was to her unknowe.
William Rothwell notes "the simplistic contrast between the 'pure' French of Paris and her 'defective' French of Stratford atte Bowe that would invite disparagement".
Snobbery surfaced more strongly as the design of the society changed, and the ] Snobbery appears when elements of culture are perceived as belonging to an aristocracy or elite, and some people the snobs feel that the mere adoption of the fashion and tastes of the elite or aristocracy is sufficient to include someone in the elites, upper a collection of matters sharing a common qualities or aristocracy.[]