• IPA: /snʌb/

snub

1. Conspicuously short.

   a snub-nosed revolver

2. Of the nose: flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
   • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 2, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

     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.

3. (mathematics, of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.

• Italian: camuso

snub (plural snubs)

1. A deliberate affront or slight.

   I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub.

2. A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
3. (obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.

   • [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.

• French: camouflet
• German: Brüskierung
• Italian: affronto, mancanza di rispetto
• Russian: пренебрежи́тельное обхожде́ние
• Spanish: desaire

snub (snubs, present participle snubbing; past and past participle snubbed)

1. (transitive) To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.

2. (transitive) To turn down; to dismiss.

   He snubbed my offer of help.

3. (transitive) To check; to reprimand.
4. (transitive) To stub out (a cigarette etc).
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.
6. (transitive) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.

• (to slight or ignore) give someone the cold shoulder, turn the cold shoulder on someone, cut someone cold, cut someone dead

• French: snober
• German: brüskieren, jemanden vor den Kopf stoßen
• Spanish: desairar, hacer un feo

• French: snober
• German: ablehnen, abtun, ausschlagen (offer)

• Russian: погаси́ть

snub (snubs, present participle snubbing; past and past participle snubbed)

1. To sob with convulsions.