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Snub   /snəb/   Listen
noun
Snub  n.  
1.
A knot; a protuberance; a song. (Obs.) "(A club) with ragged snubs and knotty grain."
2.
A check or rebuke; an intended slight.
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.


verb
Snub  v. t.  (past & past part. snubbed; pres. part. snubbing)  
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.
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.


Snub  v. i.  To sob with convulsions. (Obs.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Snub" Quotes from Famous Books



... watery head fell off. He felt around but could not find it, since his eyes had gone with his head, so he said, politely, 'Will some of you immense, raw people pick up my jealous head for me, and kindly put it on?' Snub-nosed Hilda" ["Ah, you've caught it now, young lady," from Archie] "being nearest, handed him his head, which had rolled to her idolatrous feet. The hysterical gnome immediately clapped it on—wrong side before. ...
— Cricket at the Seashore • Elizabeth Westyn Timlow
... also a peculiar streak of touchiness in her nature ("Goes with hair of that colour, my dear!") which rendered her extremely hard to deal with. She had, it seemed, opposed the idea of moving to Ballarat—that was all in her favour, said Mary—and came primed to detect a snub or a slight at every turn. This morbid suspiciousness it was that led Mary to yield her rights in the matter of the name: the confusion between them was never-ending; and, at the first hint that the ...
— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson
... thought that the "dizzy limit" had been reached when a request was received for church orderlies, billiard markers and barmen—all for a British formation. The Brigadier ventured a protest, but for his pains was treated to a severe official snub. ...
— The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I • Herbert Brayley Collett
... little girl in a pink gingham frock, who had run out from the house and climbed on the other gate-post. She was a pretty curly little creature, and the boy was an engaging compound of flaxen hair, freckles and snub nose. Calvin regarded them benevolently, and pulled out a drawer under ...
— The Wooing of Calvin Parks • Laura E. Richards
... Beverley seemed more pleased than anyone. Yet it was Beverley who prevented her paradise from being complete. Successful herself, she wanted all her friends to be successful; but Beverley, to her discomfort, remained a cheery failure, and worse, absolutely refused to snub Sellers. It was not as if Sellers' advice and comments were disinterested. Beverley was simply the instrument on which he played his songs of triumph. It distressed Annette to such an extent that now, if she went upstairs ...
— The Man Upstairs and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse


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