snub

 
Pronunciation: /snʌb/

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