snob

[klausnick]

When snob first began to be found in print, it was used as a term for a shoemaker, or cobblerNo one knows why we used to call shoemakers snobs, although it seems fairly clear that this meaning was the first one intended by this word, beginning in the early to mid-18th century. The Oxford English Dictionary has evidence indicating that the word was

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No one knows why we used to call shoemakers snobs

[colored_way]

Though it is unclear why residents of Cambridge were called shoemakers aka snobs.