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Webster 1913 Edition
Snub
Snub
,Verb.
I.
[Cf. D.
snuiven
to snort, to pant, G. schnauben
, MHG. snūben
, Prov. G. schnupfen
, to sob, and E. snuff
, v.t.] To sob with convulsions.
[Obs.]
Bailey.
Snub
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Snubbed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Snubbing
.] [Cf. Icel.
ssnubba
to snub, chide, Sw. snubba
, Icel. snubbōttr
snubbed, nipped, and E. snib
.] 1.
To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.
2.
To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check.
J. Foster.
3.
To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.
To snub a cable
or
To snub a rope
(Naut.)
, to check it suddenly in running out.
Totten.
Snub
,Noun.
1.
A knot; a protuberance; a song.
[Obs.]
[A club] with ragged
snubs
and knotty grain. Spenser.
2.
A check or rebuke; an intended slight.
J. Foster.
Snub nose
, a short or flat nose.
– Snub post
, or
Snubbing post
(Naut.)
, a post on a dock or shore, around which a rope is thrown to check the motion of a vessel.
Webster 1828 Edition
Snub
SNUB
,Noun.
SNUB
,Verb.
T.
1.
To nip; to clip or break off the end. Hence,2.
To check; to reprimand; to check, stop or rebuke with a tart sarcastic reply or remark. [This is the same word radically as sneap, sneb, and is the word chiefly used.]Definition 2024
snub
snub
English
Adjective
snub (comparative more snub, superlative most snub)
- Conspicuously short.
- a snub-nosed revolver
- 1977, Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, Part II, chapter2:
- If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
- (mathematics, of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
Derived terms
Derived terms
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Translations
conspicuously short
derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of triangular faces
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Noun
snub (plural snubs)
- A deliberate affront or slight.
- I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub.
- A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
- (obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
- Spenser
- [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.
- Spenser
Derived terms
- snubbing post
- snub line
Translations
deliberate affront or slight
A sudden checking of a cable or rope
Verb
snub (third-person singular simple present snubs, present participle snubbing, simple past and past participle snubbed)
- (transitive) To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- (transitive) To turn down; to dismiss.
- He snubbed my offer to help.
- (transitive) To stub out (a cigarette etc).
- (transitive) 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) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
Synonyms
- (to slight or ignore): give someone the cold shoulder, turn the cold shoulder on someone cut someone cold, cut someone dead
Translations
to slight, ignore, behave coldly toward
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to turn down, dismiss
to halt the movement of a rope etc.
Etymology 2
Compare Dutch snuiven (“to snort, to pant”), German schnauben, German dialect schnupfen (“to sob”), and English snuff (transitive verb).
Verb
snub (third-person singular simple present snubs, present participle snubbing, simple past and past participle snubbed)
- To sob with convulsions.
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