snub
English
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English snubben (also snibben), from Old Norse snubba (“to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove”). Cognate with Danish snibbe, dialectal Swedish snebba.
Adjective
snub (comparative more snub, superlative most snub)
- Conspicuously short.
- a snub-nosed revolver
- Of the nose: flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
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- 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.
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- (mathematics, of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
Derived terms
Derived terms
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.
- 2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist[1]:
- The bluntness of King Vajiralongkorn's intervention—and the determination it reveals to resist relatively small checks on royal power—is both a snub to the junta and a worry for democrats, some of whom had dared hope that the new king might be happy to take a back seat in public life.
- A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
- (obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
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- [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.
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Derived terms
Translations
deliberate affront or slight
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A sudden checking of a cable or rope
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Verb
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- (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 of help.
- (transitive) To check; to reprimand.
- (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 stub out
to halt the movement of a rope etc.
Etymology 2
Compare Dutch snuiven (“to snort, to pant”), German schnauben, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German dialect schnupfen (“to sob”), and English snuff (transitive verb).
Verb
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- To sob with convulsions.
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