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snub

The correct spelling is snub.

How to pronounce snub

/snʌb/
noun

IPA: /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. 1.A deliberate affront or slight.
  2. 2.A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
  3. 3.A knot; a protuberance; a snag.

verb

  1. 1.To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
  2. 2.To turn down; to dismiss.
  3. 3.To check; to reprimand.
  4. 4.To stub out (a cigarette etc).
  5. 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. 1.Conspicuously short.
  2. 2.Of the nose: flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
  3. 3.(of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.

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