snub

Meanings

Adjective

• Conspicuously short.
• Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
• Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.

Noun

• A deliberate affront or slight.
• A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
• A knot; a protuberance; a snag.

Verb

• To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
• To turn down insultingly; to dismiss.
• To check; to reprimand.
• To stub out (a cigarette etc).
• To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
• To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
• To sob with convulsions.

Related

Similar words

• give someone the cold shoulder, turn the cold shoulder on someone, cut someone cold, cut someone dead

Origin

• From Middle English snubben (also snibben), from Old Norse snubba. Cognate with Danish snibbe, dialectal Swedish snebba.
• Compare Dutch snuiven ("to snort, to pant"), German schnauben, German dialect schnupfen, and English snuff (transitive verb).