Meaning of SNUB
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- [n] a refusal to recognize someone you know; "the snub was clearly intentional"
- [n] an instance of driving away or warding off
- [adj] unusually short; "a snub nose"
- [v] reject outright and bluntly
- [v] refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting"
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| | Synonyms: | | brush off, cold shoulder, cut, cut, disregard, ignore, rebuff, rebuff, repel, repulse, short |
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| | See Also: | | disdain, do by, freeze off, handle, pooh-pooh, rebuff, reject, rejection, scorn, slight, spurn, treat, turn down | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Snub\, v. i. [Cf. D. snuiven to snort, to pant, G.
schnauben, MHG. sn[=u]ben, Prov. G. schnupfen, to sob, and E.
snuff, v.t.]
To sob with convulsions. [Obs.] --Bailey.
\Snub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snubbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Snubbing}.] [Cf. Icel. ssnubba to snub, chide, Sw. snubba,
Icel. snubb[=o]ttr 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 {rope} (Naut.), to check it suddenly in
running out. --Totten.
\Snub\, n.
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.
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