snub

[ snuhb ]

/ snʌb /

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to treat with disdain or contempt, especially by ignoring.

to check or reject with a sharp rebuke or remark.

to check or stop suddenly (a rope or cable that is running out).

to check (a boat, an unbroken horse, etc.) by means of a rope or line made fast to a fixed object.

to pull up or stop abruptly in such a manner.

an act or instance of snubbing.

an affront, slight, or rebuff.

a sudden check given to a rope or cable running out, a moving boat, or the like.

(of the nose) short and turned up at the tip.

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1300–50; Middle English snubben<Old Norse snubba to scold, reprimand; cognate with Middle Low German snūben

snubber, nounsnub·bing·ly, adverbun·snubbed, adjective

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Gingrich is still licking his wounds from his collapse in Florida and his snubbing by Donald Trump.
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By snubbing the movie, Silicon Valley, as it loves to do, is, in effect, snubbing Hollywood.
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He stood aloof from Balliol, and, in spite of marked snubbing, steadily adhered to Edward.
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"I know just how Phil feels about papa's snubbing," she said to me.
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"I daren't, after the snubbing I got yesterday," said Winnie.
The Nicest Girl in the School|Angela Brazil
I required a good deal of snubbing, but when properly kept down I believe I was not a disagreeable girl.
The Late Miss Hollingford|Rosa Mulholland
No; but you see snubbing is wholesome diet, if it is taken with a few grains of resolution, and he has come to that now!
Magnum Bonum|Charlotte M. Yonge

snub

/ (snʌb) /

to insult (someone) deliberately

to stop or check the motion of (a boat, horse, etc) by taking turns of a rope or cable around a post or other fixed object