snub
/snʌb/
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Ireland/snʊb/
snub adjective: conspicuously short.
Adjective
snub (comparative more snub, superlative most snub)
- Conspicuously short.
- a snub-nosed revolver
- Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
- It was even less easy to fix the impression in the case of the man at the right end of the table, who, to say truth, was as commonplace a person as could be seen anywhere, with a round, brown-haired head and a round snub nose, but also clad in clerical black, of a stricter cut.1914, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown
- If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 2, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN
- Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
Noun
snub (plural snubs)
- A deliberate affront or slight.
- I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub.
- It was part of Evelyn’s character that in spite of many snubs which she received or imagined, she never gave up the pursuit of people she wanted to know, and in the long run generally succeeded in knowing them and even in making them like her.1915, Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC
- A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
- A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
- [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7
Verb (1)
snub (third-person singular simple present snubs, present participle snubbing, simple past and past participle snubbed)
- To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
- When, therefore, the First Secretary sounded him as to the expediency of some step in the direction of a firmer political combination than that at present existing,—by which of course was meant the dethronement of the present Prime Minister,—Mr. Roby had snubbed him!1876, Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC
- For near three mortal months have you trifled with my feelings, eluded me, and snubbed me; and I won’t stand it!1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC
- To turn down insultingly; to dismiss.
- He snubbed my offer of help.
- The joke is on those who snub books which, judged by their covers, are written for the mass market. Mineshaft is the finest satire in gay literature.1986 February 15, Lars Eighner, “A Homosexual Norman Mailer?”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 5
- Synonyms:
- rebuff
- To check; to reprimand.
- To stub out (a cigarette etc).
- To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
- To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
Verb (2)
snub (third-person singular simple present snubs, present participle snubbing, simple past and past participle snubbed)
- To sob with convulsions.
- He striveth, strugleth, roareth, sobbeth, snubbeth, and ready he is to burst for anger.1621, Thomas Bedford, The Sinne Vnto Death
snub meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
snub in Tamil
- அவமதித்தடக்கு, இழிவுபடுத்து, மட்டந்தட்டிப் பேசு, மட்டந்தட்டிப்பேசு, மதிப்புக் குலைப்பு
snub in Urdu
- ڈانٹ, جھڑکی, ڈپٹنا, جھڑکنا
snub in Bengali
- snub
- চ্যাপটা cêpṭa
snub in Malayalam
- ശാസിക്കുക, താക്കീതു നൽകുക
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- snub in Kannada
- ಮುಖಭಂಗ, ದಬಾವಣೆ, ತೇಜೋವಧೆ, ಗಿಡ್ಡ
- snub in Persian
- بی توجهی
Examples of snub in a sentence
- The worst of it was that she had always snubbed and ignored him.1905, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
- He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New...
Synonyms of snub
Forms of snub
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more snub |
| superlative | most snub |
| alternative form | snib |
| Noun | |
| plural | snubs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | snubs |
| present participle | snubbing |
| past participle | snubbed |
| past | snubbed |
Origin of snub
From Middle English snubben, snibben (noun), either indigenous or from Old Norse snubba (“to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove, rebuff, infringe”), from Proto-Germanic *snūbaną, *snūpaną. Related to English snip, snap, snape, sneap, to Old Norse sneypa (among more), to Proto-Germanic *snaupijaną. The original sense is visible in Nordic cognates, to an original sense of “pinching off” (→ “to repress, infringe”), really “snipping off” (Old Norse sneypa, Norwegian Nynorsk snøypa, Swedish snöpa, snoppa, snipa, snippa (“to pinch off, to squeeze off, to castrate”)), with nouns denoting “pinched end → point” (cf. Swedish snip (“snout, spout”), snibb (“lobe”)). Maybe distantly related to snoop (“be nosy”), to “pinched point” referencing snouts, i.e. the “pinched of point of the animal” (cf. Swedish snopp (“penis”)), then also maybe sniff. Compare Proto-Germanic *snabulaz; also English neb, nib (“beak, point”). Other cognate forms: Danish snubbe, snibbe, snibe, snippe, sneppe, snøbba; Swedish snebba, snåipa, snypa, snyppa.
From Middle English snubben, snobben (“to sob”). Compare Dutch snuiven (“to snort, to pant”), German schnauben, German dialect schnupfen (“to sob”), and English snuff (transitive verb).
Words formed from snub
- 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
Phrases with snub
Words that rhyme with snub
Questions about snub
- What does snub mean?
- Snub means conspicuously short.
- What is snub in Tamil?
- Snub in Tamil is அவமதித்தடக்கு, இழிவுபடுத்து, மட்டந்தட்டிப் பேசு. See Snub meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use snub in a sentence?
- The worst of it was that she had always snubbed and ignored him.
- What part of speech is snub?
- Snub can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce snub?
- Snub is pronounced /snʌb/.
Words near snub in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: snub (page history and authors); snub (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); snub (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); চ্যাপটা (Bengali) (page history and authors); snub (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); snub (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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