snub

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• Rhymes: -ʌb

Etymology 1

Adjective

snub (comparative more snub, superlative most snub)

1. Conspicuously short.

   a snub-nosed revolver

   • 1977, Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, Part II, chapter2:

     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.

2. (mathematics, of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.

Derived terms

• retrosnub
• snub cube
• snub disphenoid
• snub dodecahedron
• snub polyhedron
• vertisnub

Translations

conspicuously short

• Dutch: stomp (nl)

• Italian: camuso
• Maori: noke (of the nose)

derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of triangular faces

• Latin: triangulatus m

Noun

snub (plural snubs)

1. A deliberate affront or slight.

   I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub.

2. A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
3. (obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
   • Spenser

     [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.

Derived terms

• snubbing post
• snub line

Translations

deliberate affront or slight

• Dutch: bruuskeren (nl)
• French: camouflet (fr) m
• German: Brüskierung f
• Maori: pī

• Persian: بی توجهی
• Russian: пренебрежительное обхождение n (prenebrežítelʹnoje obxoždénije)
• Spanish: desaire (es) m

A sudden checking of a cable or rope

Verb

snub (third-person singular simple present snubs, present participle snubbing, simple past and past participle snubbed)

1. (transitive) To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.

2. (transitive) To turn down; to dismiss.

   He snubbed my offer to help.

3. (transitive) To stub out (a cigarette etc).
4. (transitive) 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. (transitive) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.

Synonyms

• (to slight or ignore): cut someone cold, cut someone dead

Translations

slight, ignore, behave coldly toward

• French: snober (fr)
• German: brüskieren (de), jemanden vor den Kopf stoßen
• Russian: пренебрежительно (prenebrežitelʹno) обходиться (obxoditʹsja) (prenebrežítelʹno obxodítʹsja) (с (s) + instrumental case)

• Spanish: desairar
• Swedish: avfärda (sv)

turn down, dismiss

• French: snober (fr)
• German: ablehnen (de), abtun (de), ausschlagen (offer)

• Swedish: avfärda (sv)

To stub out (a cigarette etc)

• Russian: погасить (ru) (pogasítʹ)

To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner

Etymology 2

Compare Dutch snuiven (“to snort, to pant”), German schnauben, German dialect schnupfen (“to sob”), and English snuff (transitive verb).

Verb

snub (third-person singular simple present snubs, present participle snubbing, simple past and past participle snubbed)

1. To sob with convulsions.

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Anagrams

• buns
• nubs