English Explanatory Dictionary

snub

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Conspicuously short.
  2. Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
  3. Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
noun
  1. A deliberate affront or slight.
  2. A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
  3. A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
verb
  1. To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
  2. To turn down insultingly; to dismiss.
  3. To check; to reprimand.
  4. To stub out (a cigarette etc).
  5. To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
  6. To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
verb
  1. To sob with convulsions.

Pronunciation

/snʌb/ en-us-snub.ogg /snʊb/

Word forms

snub more snub most snub snubs snubbing snubbed

Etymology

From Middle English snubben (also snibben), from Old Norse snubba (“to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove”), which, like the source of English snip, is probably imitative in some manner. Cognate with Danish snibbe, dialectal Swedish snebba.

Synonyms

give someone the cold shoulder turn the cold shoulder on someone cut someone cold cut someone dead rebuff

Derived words

retrosnub snubbish snub cube snub disphenoid snub dodecahedron snubfin snubness snub nose snub-nosed snub polyhedron snub square antiprism give someone the snub snubbing post snub post snub line snubproof phub snubbable snubbee snubber snubbery snubbingly unsnubbed
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