snubbing

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

snubbing

  1. present participle and gerund of snub

Noun[edit]

snubbing (plural snubbings)

  1. The act by which someone is snubbed; a rebuke.
    • 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women:
      After many skirmishes and snubbings, the ambitious pair were considered effectually quenched and went about with forlorn faces, which were rather belied by explosions of laughter when the two got together.