Definition of snub Snub

/snʌˈb/ - [snub] - snub

We found 21 definitions of snub from 6 different sources.

What does snub mean?

Noun Plural: snubs
snub - a refusal to recognize someone you know; "the snub was clearly intentional"
		cut, cold shoulder
		slight, rebuff a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
snub - an instance of driving away or warding off
		rebuff, repulse
		rejection the act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with rejection"
Adjective snub, snubber, snubbest
snub - unusually short; "a snub nose"

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snub (Noun)
A deliberate affront or slight.
snub (Noun)
A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
snub (Noun)
A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
snub (Verb)
To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
snub (Verb)
To turn down ; to dismiss.
snub (Verb)
To stub out a cigarette etc.
snub (Verb)
To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
snub (Adjective)
Conspicuously short.
snub (Adjective)
Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.

snub (v. i.)
To sob with convulsions.
snub (v. t.)
To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.
snub (v. t.)
To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check.
snub (v. t.)
To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.
snub (n.)
A knot; a protuberance; a song.
snub (n.)
A check or rebuke; an intended slight.

snub
snub, v.t. to check, to reprimand: to slight intentionally, to rebuff by a cutting remark or retort:—pr.p. snub′bing; pa.t. and pa.p. snubbed.—n. an act of snubbing, any deliberate slight.—adjs. Snub, flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up; Snub′bish, inclined to snub or check; Snub′by, somewhat snub.—n. Snub′-nose, a short or flat nose.—adj. Snub′-nosed.—ns. Snub′-, Snub′bing-post, a post round which a rope is wound to check the motion of a horse or boat.—Snub a cable, to check it suddenly in running out. [Scand., Dan. snibbe, to reprove, Sw. snubba.]

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