rebuff, snub, repel
(verb) reject outright and bluntly; “She snubbed his proposal”
ignore, disregard, snub, cut
(verb) refuse to acknowledge; “She cut him dead at the meeting”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
snubbing
present participle of snub
snubbing (plural snubbings)
The act by which someone is snubbed; a rebuke.
Source: Wiktionary
Snub, v. i. Etym: [Cf. D. snuiven to snort, to pant, G. schnauben, MHG. snuben, Prov. G. schnupfen, to sob, and E. snuff, v.t.]
Definition: To sob with convulsions. [Obs.] Bailey.
Snub, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snubbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Snubbing.] Etym: [Cf. Icel. ssnubba to snub, chide, Sw. snubba, Icel. snubbottr 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, 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 November 2024
(verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; “Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
