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Snub

//snʌb// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Conspicuously short.

    "a snub-nosed revolver"

  2. 2
    Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.

    "It was even less easy to fix the impression in the case of the man at the right end of the table, who, to say truth, was as commonplace a person as could be seen anywhere, with a round, brown-haired head and a round snub nose, but also clad in clerical black, of a stricter cut."

  3. 3
    Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
Adjective
  1. 1
    unusually short wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A deliberate affront or slight.

    "I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub."

  2. 2
    a refusal to recognize someone you know wordnet
  3. 3
    A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
  4. 4
    an instance of driving away or warding off wordnet
  5. 5
    A knot; a protuberance; a snag. obsolete

    "[A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain."

Verb
  1. 1
    To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone. transitive

    "When, therefore, the First Secretary sounded him as to the expediency of some step in the direction of a firmer political combination than that at present existing,—by which of course was meant the dethronement of the present Prime Minister,—Mr. Roby had snubbed him!"

  2. 2
    To sob with convulsions.

    "He striveth, strugleth, roareth, sobbeth, snubbeth, and ready he is to burst for anger."

  3. 3
    reject outright and bluntly wordnet
  4. 4
    To turn down insultingly; to dismiss. transitive

    "He snubbed my offer of help."

  5. 5
    refuse to acknowledge wordnet
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  1. 6
    To check; to reprimand. transitive
  2. 7
    To stub out (a cigarette etc). transitive
  3. 8
    To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner. transitive
  4. 9
    To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English snubben (also snibben), from Old Norse snubba (“to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove”), which, like the source of English snip, is probably imitative in some manner. Cognate with Danish snibbe, dialectal Swedish snebba.

Etymology 2

From Middle English snubben (also snibben), from Old Norse snubba (“to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove”), which, like the source of English snip, is probably imitative in some manner. Cognate with Danish snibbe, dialectal Swedish snebba.

Etymology 3

From Middle English snubben (also snibben), from Old Norse snubba (“to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove”), which, like the source of English snip, is probably imitative in some manner. Cognate with Danish snibbe, dialectal Swedish snebba.

Etymology 4

From Middle English snubben, snobben (“to sob”). Compare Dutch snuiven (“to snort, to pant”), German schnauben, German dialect schnupfen (“to sob”), and English snuff (transitive verb).

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