One way to hold snob: picture an invisible staircase that someone has built in their head, with themselves standing a step above everyone else and looking down. What the steps are made of can change. If they are made of money, family and address, you get the class snob. If they are made of knowing more about wine or film, you get the taste snob. Objects can be pulled onto the staircase too: some things are bought because owning them puts you on a higher step.
From the word’s history
The evidence packet's Wiktionary entry reports that snob appears in late-18th-century English dialect meaning a cobbler, that its early senses all carried the idea of lower status, and that it was then used for people trying to imitate those of higher wealth or status; the modern sense was popularized by Thackeray's The Book of Snobs (1848). The same entry notes that the often-repeated Latin sine nobilitate story is folk etymology with no connection to the early uses. So the word began at the bottom of the staircase and moved to the person straining to be seen higher up it.
證據包的 Wiktionary 記載：snob 出現於十八世紀末的英國方言，意思是「鞋匠」；早期的用法都帶著「地位較低」的意味，後來才被拿來指那些模仿有錢人或上層身分的人；現代的意思由 Thackeray 的 The Book of Snobs（1848）帶起來。同一條目也指出，常聽到的拉丁文 sine nobilitate（無貴族身分）說法是後人附會，跟早期用法沒有關係。所以這個字是從樓梯的底層出發，最後落在那個急著讓別人看見自己站得比較高的人身上。
Wiktionary entry for snob, kaikki extract supplied in this evidence packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:489521188:23729)
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