snub

[ snuhb ]

/ snʌb /

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verb (used with object), snubbed, snub·bing.

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.

noun

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.

adjective

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

blunt.

OTHER WORDS FOR snub

1 slight.

2 stop, reprove, reprimand.

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Origin of snub

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

OTHER WORDS FROM snub

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

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How to use snub in a sentence

Gingrich is still licking his wounds from his collapse in Florida and his snubbing by Donald Trump.
Three Middle-America Primaries Could Force Out One of Mitt Romney’s Rivals|Ben Jacobs|February 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST
By snubbing the movie, Silicon Valley, as it loves to do, is, in effect, snubbing Hollywood.
Silicon Valley Snubs Social Network|Nicole LaPorte|October 1, 2010|DAILY BEAST
He stood aloof from Balliol, and, in spite of marked snubbing, steadily adhered to Edward.
King Robert the Bruce|A. F. Murison
"I know just how Phil feels about papa's snubbing," she said to me.
We Ten|Lyda Farrington Kraus

"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

British Dictionary definitions for snub

snub

/ (snʌb) /

verb snubs, snubbing or snubbed (tr)

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

noun

a deliberately insulting act or remark

nautical

an elastic shock absorber attached to a mooring line
(as modifier)a snub rope

adjective

short and bluntSee also snub-nosed

Derived forms of snub

snubber, nounsnubby, adjective

Word Origin for snub

C14: from Old Norse snubba to scold; related to Norwegian, Swedish dialect snubba to cut short, Danish snubbe

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