snub
noun
- a refusal to socially acknowledge an acquaintance
verb
- a refusal to socially acknowledge an acquaintance
- an operation applied to a polyhedron
adjective
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Pronunciation: /snʌb/ / /snʊb/
adj
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.
- 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.”
“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.”
- Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
noun
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.
- 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.”
- A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
- A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
“[A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.”
verb
Etymology: 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).
- To sob with convulsions.
“He striveth, strugleth, roareth, sobbeth, snubbeth, and ready he is to burst for anger.”