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Definition of Snub

Snub
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. 2. To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check. --J. Foster. 3. To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly. To snub a cable or rope (Naut.), to check it suddenly in running out. --Totten.
Snub
Snub Snub, n. 1. A knot; a protuberance; a song. [Obs.] [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain. --Spenser. 2. A check or rebuke; an intended slight. --J. Foster. 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.
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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.

Meaning of Snub from wikipedia

- A snub, cut, or slight is a refusal to recognise an acquaintance by ignoring them, avoiding them or pretending not to know them. For example, a failure...
- In geometry, the snub cube, or snub cuboctahedron, is an Archimedean solid with 38 faces: 6 squares and 32 equilateral triangles. It has 60 edges and 24...
- Look up snub in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A snub is a refusal to recognise an acquaintance. It may also refer to: Snub (geometry), an operation...
- 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...
- Snub-nosed monkeys are a group of Old World monkeys and make up the entirety of the genus Rhinopithecus. The genus is rare and not fully researched. Some...
- also be called the Conway snub cuboctahedron in but will be confused with the Coxeter snub cuboctahedron, the snub cube. The snub rhombicuboctahedron can...
- A snubber is a device used to suppress ("snub") a phenomenon such as voltage transients in electrical systems, pressure transients in fluid systems (caused...
- The golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) is an Old World monkey in the subfamily Colobinae. It is endemic to a small area in temperate, mountainous...
- Snubbing is a type of heavy well intervention performed on oil and gas wells. It involves running the BHA on a pipe string using a hydraulic workover rig...
- A mechanical snubber is a mechanical device designed to protect components from excess shock or sway caused by seismic disturbances or other transient...