Snub

[snʌb]

Definition

(noun.) a refusal to recognize someone you know; 'the snub was clearly intentional'.

(adj.) unusually short; 'a snub nose' .

Checked by Godiva--From WordNet

Definition

(v. i.) To sob with convulsions.

(v. t.) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.

(v. t.) To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check.

(v. t.) To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.

(n.) A knot; a protuberance; a song.

(n.) A check or rebuke; an intended slight.

Checker: Newman

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Nip, clip, dock, prune, cut short, cut down.[2]. Check (with a tart remark), reprimand, reprove, rebuke, chide.[3]. Abash (as a pretentious person), humble, humiliate, shame, mortify, confound, disconcert, discomfit, BLUFF, put down, take down, put to shame, make ashamed, take down a peg, send away with a flea in one's ear, teach one one's distance.

Edited by Alison

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Mortify, check, rebuke, reprimand,[See CRINGE_and_SKULK]

Edited by Donnie

Definition

v.t. to check to reprimand: to slight intentionally to rebuff by a cutting remark or retort:—pr.p. snub′bing; pa.t. and pa.p. snubbed.—n. an act of snubbing any deliberate slight.—adjs. Snub flat and broad with the end slightly turned up; Snub′bish inclined to snub or check; Snub′by somewhat snub.—n. Snub′-nose a short or flat nose.—adj. Snub′-nosed.—ns. Snub′- Snub′bing-post a post round which a rope is wound to check the motion of a horse or boat.—Snub a cable to check it suddenly in running out.

Editor: Rodney