Snub

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  • transitive verb. To ignore or behave coldly toward; slight.
  • transitive verb. To dismiss, turn down, or frustrate the expectations of.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To check the movement of (a rope or cable running out) by turning it quickly about a post or cleat.
  • transitive verb. To secure (a vessel, for example) in this manner.
  • transitive verb. To stub out (a cigarette, for example).
  • noun. A deliberate slight or affront.
  • noun. A sudden checking, as of a rope or cable running out.
  • adjective. Unusually short.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A protuberance or knot in wood.
  • noun. A nose turned up at the tip and somewhat flat and broad; a pug-nose.
  • noun. A check; a rebuff; a rebuke; an intentional slight.
  • noun. The sudden checking of a rope or cable running out.
  • noun. A stake, set in the bank of a river or canal, around which a rope may be cast to check the motion of a boat or raft.
  • To cut off short; nip; check in growth; stunt.
  • To make snub, as the nose.
  • To check or stop suddenly; check the headway of, as a vessel by means of a rope in order to turn her into a narrow berth, or an unbroken horse in order to break him to the halter: commonly with up; also, to fasten, or tie up, as to a snub or snubbing-post.
  • To disconcert; check; rebuke with a severe or sarcastic reply or remark; slight designedly; treat with deliberate neglect.
  • To affect or compel in a specific way by snubbing: as, to snub one into silence.
  • noun. See snob.
  • Somewhat broad and flat, with the tip turned up: said of the nose.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To sob with convulsions.
  • noun. A knot; a protuberance; a song.
  • noun. A check or rebuke; an intended slight.
  • noun. a short or flat nose.
  • noun. a post on a dock or shore, around which a rope is thrown to check the motion of a vessel.
  • noun. undefined
  • transitive verb. To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.
  • transitive verb. To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check.
  • transitive verb. To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.
  • transitive verb. to check it suddenly in running out.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. conspicuously short
  • adjective. Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces
  • noun. A deliberate affront or slight.
  • noun. A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
  • noun. A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
  • verb. To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
  • verb. To turn down; to dismiss.
  • verb. To stub out (a cigarette etc).
  • verb. To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an instance of driving away or warding off
  • adjective. unusually short
  • verb. refuse to acknowledge
  • verb. reject outright and bluntly
  • noun. a refusal to recognize someone you know
  • Word Usage
    ""That's what I call a snub," said Graham's friend, the dark-complexioned young man, who was within hearing."
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