'Snub' definitions:
Definition of 'snub'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Unusually short; "a snub nose"
noun
noun
A refusal to recognize someone you know; "the snub was clearly intentional" [syn: snub, cut, cold shoulder]
verb
verb
Definition of 'Snub'
From: GCIDE
- Snub \Snub\, n.
- 1. A knot; a protuberance; a song. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A check or rebuke; an intended slight. --J. Foster. [1913 Webster]
- Snub nose, a short or flat nose.
- Snub post, or Snubbing post (Naut.), a post on a dock or shore, around which a rope is thrown to check the motion of a vessel. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Snub'
From: GCIDE
- Snub \Snub\, v. i. [Cf. D. snuiven to snort, to pant, G. schnauben, MHG. sn[=u]ben, Prov. G. schnupfen, to sob, and E. snuff, v.t.] To sob with convulsions. [Obs.] --Bailey. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Snub'
From: GCIDE
- Snub \Snub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snubbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Snubbing.] [Cf. Icel. ssnubba to snub, chide, Sw. snubba, Icel. snubb[=o]ttr snubbed, nipped, and E. snib.]
- 1. To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check. --J. Foster. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly. [1913 Webster]
- To snub a cable or To snub a rope (Naut.), to check it suddenly in running out. --Totten. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'snub'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abbreviate,
- abbreviated,
- abridge,
- abridged,
- abstract,
- abstracted,
- arrest,
- ban,
- banish,
- beat back,
- blackball,
- bob,
- bobbed,
- boil down,
- bottle up,
- bridle,
- brush off,
- brush-off,
- capsule,
- capsulize,
- capsulized,
- cast out,
- chase,
- chase away,
- chase off,
- check,
- clip,
- clipped,
- cold shoulder,
- cold-shoulder,
- compress,
- compressed,
- condense,
- condensed,
- constrain,
- contain,
- contract,
- control,
- cool,
- cool off,
- countercheck,
- crop,
- cropped,
- curb,
- curtail,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut back,
- cut direct,
- cut down,
- cut off short,
- cut short,
- dam up,
- damp,
- dampen,
- decelerate,
- delay,
- deport,
- detain,
- digested,
- disfellowship,
- dismiss,
- dismissal,
- disregard,
- dock,
- docked,
- dompt,
- drive away,
- drive back,
- elide,
- elided,
- elliptic,
- enjoin,
- epitomize,
- exclude,
- excommunicate,
- exile,
- expatriate,
- expel,
- extradite,
- fend off,
- foreshorten,
- fugitate,
- govern,
- guard,
- high-hat,
- hinder,
- hold,
- hold at bay,
- hold back,
- hold fast,
- hold in,
- hold in check,
- hold in leash,
- hold off,
- hold up,
- humiliation,
- impede,
- inhibit,
- intercept,
- interfere,
- intermeddle,
- interrupt,
- intervene,
- keep,
- keep back,
- keep from,
- keep in,
- keep in check,
- keep off,
- keep under control,
- lay under restraint,
- meddle,
- mow,
- mowed,
- mown,
- nip,
- nipped,
- not receive,
- oppose,
- ostracize,
- outlaw,
- pack off,
- poll,
- pollard,
- polled,
- prohibit,
- proscribe,
- prune,
- pruned,
- pull,
- pull in,
- push back,
- put back,
- put down,
- reap,
- reaped,
- rebuff,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- reduce,
- refusal,
- refuse,
- refuse to receive,
- rein,
- rein in,
- relegate,
- repel,
- repress,
- repulse,
- resist,
- restrain,
- retard,
- retrench,
- rusticate,
- scotch,
- send away,
- send down,
- send off,
- send packing,
- send to Coventry,
- set back,
- shave,
- shaved,
- shear,
- sheared,
- short-cut,
- shorten,
- shortened,
- slacken,
- slight,
- slow down,
- sneer,
- sniff,
- snob,
- snort,
- snubbed,
- spurn,
- spurning,
- straiten,
- stunt,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- suppress,
- swank,
- synopsize,
- take in,
- telescope,
- the cold shoulder,
- the go-by,
- thrust back,
- thrust out,
- transport,
- trim,
- trimmed,
- truncate,
- turn away from,
- turn back,
- upstage,
- ward off,
- withhold