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snub

UK/snʌb/ US/snʊb/ rare obsolete
verb (2) noun (2) adjective (1)

verb

1.

refuse to acknowledge

  • “She cut him dead at the meeting”
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2.

reject outright and bluntly

  • “She snubbed his proposal”
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noun

1.

an instance of driving away or warding off

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2.

a refusal to recognize someone you know

  • “the snub was clearly intentional”
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adjective

1.

unusually short

  • “a snub nose”
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Origin

From Middle English snubben, snibben (noun), either indigenous or from Old Norse snubba (“to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove, rebuff, infringe”), from Proto-Germanic *snūbaną, *snūpaną. Related to English snip, snap, snape, sneap, to Old Norse sneypa (among more), to Proto-Germanic *snaupijaną. The original sense is visible in Nordic cognates, to an original sense of “pinching off” (→ “to repress, infringe”), really “snipping off” (Old Norse sneypa, Norwegian Nynorsk snøypa, Swedish snöpa, snoppa, snipa, snippa (“to pinch off, to squeeze off, to castrate”)), with nouns denoting “pinched end → point” (cf. Swedish snip (“snout, spout”), snibb (“lobe”)). Maybe distantly related to snoop (“be nosy”), to “pinched point” referencing snouts, i.e. the “pinched of point of the animal” (cf. Swedish snopp (“penis”)), then also maybe sniff. Compare Proto-Germanic *snabulaz; also English neb, nib (“beak, point”). Other cognate forms: Danish snubbe, snibbe, snibe, snippe, sneppe, snøbba; Swedish snebba, snåipa, snypa, snyppa.

Phrases

  • give someone the snub
  • snub cube
  • snub disphenoid
  • snub dodecahedron
  • snub line
  • snub nose
  • snub polyhedron
  • snub post
  • snub square antiprism
  • snubbing post

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