verb, noun
verb (-bb-) [VN]
1 to insult sb, especially by ignoring them when you meet:
I tried to be friendly, but she snubbed me completely.
2 to refuse to attend or accept sth, for example as a protest:
All the country's leading players snubbed the tournament.
noun ~ (to sb) an action or a comment that is deliberately rude in order to show sb that you do not like or respect them:
Her refusal to attend the dinner is being seen as a deliberate snub to the President.
adjective [onlybeforenoun] (of a nose) short, flat and turned up at the end
snub-nosed adjective:
a snub-nosed child * a snub-nosed revolver (= with a short barrel)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for snub is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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