snub : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: snub	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for snub
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
snub adj unusually short; "a snub nose" n an instance of driving away or warding off [syn: rebuff, snub, repulse] a refusal to recognize someone you know; "the snub was clearly intentional" Synonym(s): snub, cut, cold shoulder v refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting" Synonym(s): ignore, disregard, snub, cut reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal" Synonym(s): rebuff, snub, repel
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Snub \Snub\, v. i. [Cf. D. snuiven to snort, to pant, G. schnauben, MHG. sn[umac]ben, Prov. G. schnupfen, to sob, and E. snuff, v.t.] To sob with convulsions. [Obs.] --Bailey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Snub \Snub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snubbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Snubbing}.] [Cf. Icel. ssnubba to snub, chide, Sw. snubba, Icel. snubb[omac]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.