Definitions for Snub
snʌbsnub

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. rebuff, snub, repulsenoun

   an instance of driving away or warding off

2. snub, cut, cold shoulderadjective

   a refusal to recognize someone you know

   "the snub was clearly intentional"

3. snubverb

   unusually short

   "a snub nose"

4. ignore, disregard, snub, cutverb

   refuse to acknowledge

   "She cut him dead at the meeting"

5. rebuff, snub, repelverb

   reject outright and bluntly

   "She snubbed his proposal"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. snubnoun

   A deliberate affront or slight.

   I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub.

2. snubnoun

   A sudden checking of a cable or rope.

3. snubverb

   To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.

4. snubverb

   To turn down; to dismiss.

   He snubbed my offer to help.

5. snubverb

   To stub out (a cigarette etc).

6. snubverb

   To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.

7. snubadjective

   conspicuously short

   a snub-nosed revolver

8. snubadjective

   Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Snubnoun

   A jag; a snag; a knot in wood.

   Etymology: from snebbe, Dutch, a nose, or knubel, a joint of the finger.

   Lifting up his dreadful club on high,
   All arm’d with ragged snubs and knotty grain,
   Him thought at first encounter to have slain. Fairy Queen.

2. To Snubverb

   Etymology: Rather To snib.

   1. To check; to reprimand.2. To nip.

   Near the seashores the heads and boughs of trees run out far to landward; but toward the sea are so snubbed by the winds, as if their boughs had been pared or shaven off. John Ray.

3. To Snubverb

   To sob with convulsion.

   Etymology: snuffen, Dutch.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SNUB

   SNUB or Stop Norwich UrBanisation is a non-profit organisation based around Norwich, United Kingdom, whose aim is to stop the urbanisation of Norwich and its surrounding villages, such as Rackheath, Salhouse, Wroxham and Postwick.The work of SNUB has received wide coverage, including national coverage on BBC Radio 4's Farming Today programme and in the UK newspaper, the Daily Telegraph. It has also received local coverage on television programmes such as BBC One's Politics Show, BBC One's Look East, ITV's Anglia Tonight and a BBC One Norwich North By-Election Special; and in local newspapers, such as the Eastern Daily Press and the Norwich Evening News.In March 2012, after a successful legal challenge at the High Court, they announced that the actor Martin Shaw would become their official patron. In a press release, he announced that he was "simply furious and upset by your plight and that of all of us who wish to live in quiet and peace. I will be your Patron and keep fighting".

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1. snub

   A snub refers to an act of rebuff, ignore, or spurn disdainfully. It is essentially a deliberate act of disrespect or disregard towards someone. It is often associated with rejecting or refusing to acknowledge someone's presence, greeting, or opinion.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Snubverb

   to sob with convulsions

2. Snubverb

   to clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop

3. Snubverb

   to check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check

4. Snubverb

   to treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly

5. Snubnoun

   a knot; a protuberance; a song

6. Snubnoun

   a check or rebuke; an intended slight

7. Etymology: [Cf. Icel. ssnubba to snub, chide, Sw. snubba, Icel. snubbttr snubbed, nipped, and E. snib.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Snub

   snub, 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. [Scand., Dan. snibbe, to reprove, Sw. snubba.]

Rap DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. snubnoun

   A revolver with a short barrel. "I'm in the club with the snub" -- 50 Cent (Disco Inferno)

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1. SNUB

   What does SNUB stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the SNUB acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Snub in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Snub in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Snub in a Sentence

1. Nancy Astor:

   The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

2. Nancy Astor:

   The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

3. House Democrats:

   He came to House Foreign Affairs Committee once, stayed for about four hours... several months later, he appeared before the Senate but did not appear before the House. That was a snub any way New York Democrat want to look at it.

4. Raneshwar Sing Kishan:

   Filmy style is used by Govt to snub the voice of dissentors. Send own Goondas in the midst of villages to pelt stone on protestors and to make them clash and bootlicking media covers the picture through camera in such a way that it misguide viewers

5. Deena Bruderick:

   The Rock Hall snub just makes me feel like it doesn't even matter what the public opinion is. That the committee felt they knew better than the fans.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Snub
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Snub
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Snub
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snub
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Snub
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Snub