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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Snub

Snūb, n.

noun

n. [Cf. Dan. snip, point, edge, end, D. sned, a beak.]

  1. A knot or protuberance in wood; a snag. [Obs.] Spenser.
  2. [See SNEAP.] A check or rebuke. J. Foster.

Snŭb, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SNUBBED; p. pr. & vb. n. SNUBBING.]

  1. To clip or break off the end of; to nip.
  2. To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check. J. Foster.
  3. To treat with deserved contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.

☞ This is the same word, radically, as sneap, snob, and is the word chiefly used. To snub a cable or rope (Naut.), to check it suddenly in running out. Totten.

Snūb, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [M. H. Ger. snūben, snouwen, N. H. Ger. schnauben, to snort, to pant, Prov. Ger. schnuppen, schnupfen, to sob.] To sob with convulsions. [Obs.] Bailey.