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Raresnub
The correct spelling is snub.
How to pronounce snub
/snʌb/
nounIPA: /snʌb/
Say it like: Snu-b
The correct spelling is snub. A deliberate affront or slight. For example: "I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub."
Usage Examples
“I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub.”
“He snubbed my offer of help.”
“a snub-nosed revolver”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A deliberate affront or slight.
- 2.A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
- 3.A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
verb
- 1.To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
- 2.To turn down; to dismiss.
- 3.To check; to reprimand.
- 4.To stub out (a cigarette etc).
- 5.To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
adjective
- 1.Conspicuously short.
- 2.Of the nose: flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
- 3.(of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
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