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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
snub
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a snub/turned-up nose (=one that curves up at the end)
▪ She had big eyes and a turned-up nose.
snub nose
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Executives who had once snubbed Miller were now calling him to chat.
▪ High-schoolers will often snub anyone they feel is different or strange.
▪ I couldn't believe Simon had snubbed me at the party.
▪ Rosanna felt snubbed when she wasn't invited to the wedding.
▪ The senator was furious. ""How would you feel if you'd been snubbed by the wife of your president?''
▪ They snubbed his invitation to a meeting of foreign ministers at the UN in New York.
▪ When the college invited him to speak, he was snubbed by students who felt his policies were unfair to minorities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And since Al has decided to snub the press, he is in the unfortunate position of having to answer for him.
▪ I hope the stuffy Royals who snubbed her now appreciate her honesty.
▪ That offer, too, has been snubbed.
▪ The editors' snubbing of their contributions would one day prove shortsighted.
▪ The experimenters there for the most part snubbed the newcomer.
▪ The foredeck man snubbed it on the cleat.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Her absence was not intended as a snub.
▪ The assistant director took it as a snub when he was not invited to the conference.
▪ The mayor's comments were not meant as a deliberate snub to the French visitors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Actually, these snubs from Shaw have the effect of making one curious about Eugene Scribe.
▪ But Clinton refused to leave his home state of Arkansas and this was interpreted as a snub to Major.
▪ Charles Howard had just delivered me a colossal snub.
▪ In the office, we avenge slight slights with small snubs.
▪ Male speaker It's not a snub.
▪ President Clinton's nomination represents a double snub say critics.
▪ Rebel Despite this snub, Johnston has been careful to avoid a public row at Goodison.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snub

Snub \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

Snub \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 To snub a rope (Naut.), to check it suddenly in running out.
    --Totten.

Snub

Snub \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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
snub

mid-14c., "to check, reprove, rebuke," from Old Norse snubba "to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove." The ground sense is perhaps "to cut off," and the word probably is related to snip. Compare Swedish snobba "lop off, snuff (a candle)," Old Norse snubbotr "snubbed, nipped, with the tip cut off." Meaning "treat coldly" appeared early 18c. Related: Snubbed; snubbing.

snub

"short and turned up," 1725, in snub-nosed, from snub (v.). The connecting notion is of being "cut short."

snub

"rebuke, intentional slight," 1530s, from snub (v.).

Wiktionary
snub

Etymology 1

  1. 1 Conspicuously short. 2 (label en mathematics of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces. n. 1 A deliberate affront or slight. 2 A sudden checking of a cable or rope. 3 (context obsolete English) A knot; a protuberance; a snag. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone. 2 (context transitive English) To turn down; to dismiss. 3 (context transitive English) To stub out (a cigarette etc). 4 (context transitive English) To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner. 5 (context transitive English) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of. Etymology 2

    vb. To sob with convulsions.

WordNet
snub
  1. adj. unusually short; "a snub nose"

  2. n. an instance of driving away or warding off [syn: rebuff, repulse]

  3. a refusal to recognize someone you know; "the snub was clearly intentional" [syn: cut, cold shoulder]

  4. [also: snubbing, snubbed]

snub
  1. v. refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting" [syn: ignore, disregard, cut]

  2. reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal" [syn: rebuff, repel]

  3. [also: snubbing, snubbed]

Wikipedia
Snub (disambiguation)

A snub is a refusal to recognise an acquaintance. It may also refer to:

  • snub (geometry), an Archimedean solid
  • SNUB, a non-profit organisation aimed at stopping the urban sprawl of Norwich, UK
  • Lawrence Snub Mosley (1905–1981), American jazz trombonist
  • Harry Snub Pollard (1889–1962), Australian-born silent film comedian
Snub (geometry)
Snub

A snub, cut or slight is a refusal to recognise an acquaintance by ignoring them, avoiding them or pretending not to know them. For example, a failure to greet someone may be considered a snub.

Usage examples of "snub".

Clipping the beeper safely to his belt, Nathan presses thumb and forefinger, his messages flying off to wherever they fly, to message heaven, the graveyard of electronically snubbed pleas and particles of undesired need.

Therese, seeing that he was posing as master of the field, and that his manners disgusted me, began to snub him, much to his displeasure, and after sneering at the poorness of the dishes, and praising the wine which he had supplied, he went out leaving us to finish our dessert by ourselves.

At tea-time, and during the early part of the evening, she was preoccupied and inclined to be irritable in her anxiety, and she snubbed Bunty two or three times quite unkindly.

As she smiled, white teeth flashed in a big mouth with bold lines and her cheeks were chubbily rounded on either side of a slightly snub nose with a childish, round tip to it that made the face gentle and kindly.

And the occasion which produced that prosaic thought was a night well calculated to make one think of supper and fireside, though the one might be frugal and the other lonely, and as I, Gulliver Jones, the poor foresaid Navy lieutenant, with the honoured stars of our Republic on my collar, and an undeserved snub from those in authority rankling in my heart, picked my way homeward by a short cut through the dismalness of a New York slum I longed for steak and stout, slippers and a pipe, with all the pathetic keenness of a troubled soul.

Juliette had ridden Oriflamme across the lawn this morning, cutting it up badly, and had followed this by snubbing Lady Hawkchurch.

An incongruous snub nose poked out of the undergrowth, surmounted by a pair of wide and gentle hazel eyes.

His uncle Pomfret was a big, broad, stout man with a very red face, large wide-open eyes and a little snub nose.

Big bland blue eyes, and a snub nose and a puckery little mouth, and two chins.

Jameson lost his step, trying to avoid tripping over the thing, and was rewarded by a painful yank of the cord snubbed around his septum.

The four-foot bubble with the Cygnan and the two humanoids curled inside was snubbed securely to the shaft.

The bubble with its curled-up Cygnan and fetal humanoids was still snubbed in place.

Babe to ask so she could apologize to whomever she had inadvertently snubbed, some wild-headed woman swathed in fur.

And sentenced himself thereby to four years of skulking around a city which snubbed him unmercifully, while big brother Appius in the East accomplished deeds which showed all of Rome that he was a true Claudian when it came to making mischief.

I had not seen her, and had talked for a long time to Leonard--I had snubbed him for no reason, and that should have warned me I was in danger.