snub
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Is snub a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (of a nose) Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.Examples: "It was even less easy to fix the impression in the case of the man at the right end of the table, who, to say truth, was as commonplace a person as could be seen anywhere, with a round, brown-haired head and a round snub nose, but also clad in clerical black, of a stricter cut."; "If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon."
2. (mathematics, of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.Examples: "[A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.Examples: "When, therefore, the First Secretary sounded him as to the expediency of some step in the direction of a firmer political combination than that at present existing,—by which of course was meant the dethronement of the present Prime Minister,—Mr. Roby had snubbed him!"; "For near three mortal months have you trifled with my feelings, eluded me, and snubbed me; and I won’t stand it!"; "Lily was sure that within twenty-four hours the story of her visiting her dress-maker at the Benedick would be in active circulation among Mr. Rosedale’s acquaintances. The worst of it was that she had always snubbed and ignored him."Synonyms: give someone the cold shoulder, turn the cold shoulder on someone, cut someone cold, cut someone deadtransitive
2. (transitive) To turn down insultingly; to dismiss.Examples: "He snubbed my offer of help."; "The joke is on those who snub books which, judged by their covers, are written for the mass market. Mineshaft is the finest satire in gay literature."Synonyms: rebufftransitive
3. (transitive) To check; to reprimand.transitive
4. (transitive) To stub out (a cigarette etc).transitive
5. (transitive) To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.transitive
6. (transitive) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary