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snub

Pronunciation: /snʌb/

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Definition of snub

verb (snubs, snubbing, snubbed)

[with object]

1rebuff, ignore, or spurn disdainfully:he snubbed faculty members and students alike they snubbed his invitation to a meeting of foreign ministers

2check the movement of (a horse or boat), especially by a rope wound round a post:a horse snubbed to a tree

noun

an act of rebuffing or ignoring someone or something:the move was a snub to the government

adjective

(of a person’s nose) short and turned up at the end: [in combination]:snub-nosed

Origin:

Middle English (as a verb, originally in the sense 'rebuke with sharp words'): from Old Norse snubba 'chide, check the growth of'. The adjective dates from the early 18th century

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