SNUB (snubbed, snubbing)

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Irregular inflected forms: snubbed    , snubbing   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does snub mean? 

• SNUB (noun)
  The noun SNUB has 2 senses:

1. an instance of driving away or warding off

2. a refusal to recognize someone you know

  Familiarity information: SNUB used as a noun is rare.

• SNUB (adjective)
  The adjective SNUB has 1 sense:

1. unusually short

  Familiarity information: SNUB used as an adjective is very rare.

• SNUB (verb)
  The verb SNUB has 2 senses:

1. refuse to acknowledge

2. reject outright and bluntly

  Familiarity information: SNUB used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNUB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An instance of driving away or warding off

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

rebuff; repulse; snub

Hypernyms ("snub" is a kind of...):

rejection (the speech act of rejecting)

Derivation:

snub (reject outright and bluntly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A refusal to recognize someone you know

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cold shoulder; cut; snub

Context example:

the snub was clearly intentional

Hypernyms ("snub" is a kind of...):

rebuff; slight (a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval))

Derivation:

snub (refuse to acknowledge)

• SNUB (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unusually short

Context example:

a snub nose

Similar:

short ((primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length)

• SNUB (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they snub    ... he / she / it snubs   
Past simple: snubbed   
Past participle: snubbed   
-ing form: snubbing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Refuse to acknowledge

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

cut; disregard; ignore; snub

Context example:

She cut him dead at the meeting

Hypernyms (to "snub" is one way to...):

do by; handle; treat (interact in a certain way)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

snub (a refusal to recognize someone you know)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Reject outright and bluntly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

rebuff; repel; snub

Context example:

She snubbed his proposal

Hypernyms (to "snub" is one way to...):

disdain; freeze off; pooh-pooh; reject; scorn; spurn; turn down (reject with contempt)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

snub (an instance of driving away or warding off)

 Context examples 

Hans promptly snubbed with the rope, as though Buck were a boat.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Don't like him, he puts on airs, snubs his sisters, worries his father, and doesn't speak respectfully of his mother.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He would sometimes think he had got the better of his objection, and be amiable for a few minutes; and then would put up his snub nose, and howl to that extent, that there was nothing for it but to blind him and put him in the plate-warmer.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Nay, but they are not to take in a decoction or in nauseous form, so you need not snub that so charming nose, or I shall point out to my friend Arthur what woes he may have to endure in seeing so much beauty that he so loves so much distort.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Hans snubbed the rope around the tree, and Buck and Thornton were jerked under the water.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

"You've kept close to that starched-up Englishwoman all day, and now you snub me."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I was still looking at the doorway, thinking that Miss Mowcher was a long while making her appearance, when, to my infinite astonishment, there came waddling round a sofa which stood between me and it, a pursy dwarf, of about forty or forty-five, with a very large head and face, a pair of roguish grey eyes, and such extremely little arms, that, to enable herself to lay a finger archly against her snub nose, as she ogled Steerforth, she was obliged to meet the finger half-way, and lay her nose against it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They attached the line with which they had been snubbing the boat to Buck’s neck and shoulders, being careful that it should neither strangle him nor impede his swimming, and launched him into the stream.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

"Don't say 'larks!'" implored Amy, as a return snub for the 'samphire' correction.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The boat flirted over and snubbed in to the bank bottom up, while Thornton, flung sheer out of it, was carried down-stream toward the worst part of the rapids, a stretch of wild water in which no swimmer could live.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)