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Definition: SNUBBED |
SNUBBEDImperative & past participle1. Of Snub |
Date "SNUBBED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1798. (references) |
Crosswords: SNUBBED |
| Specialty definitions using "SNUBBED": Hen-pecked. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | That'll add a lot to my prestige, won't it? Me, the head of a country, snubbed by a forgein ambassador. (Duck Soup; writing credit: Bert Kalmar ; Harry Ruby) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Snubbed by a Snob (1940) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "SNUBBED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 47.76% of the time. "SNUBBED" is used about 67 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 47.76% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 40.3% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.96% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.99% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 67 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SNUBBED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | trykroer monteret med boejelige boreroerssamlinger boer fasttoejres eller forankres (pressure pipes fitted with flexible joints should be snubbed or anchored). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | drukpijpen voorzien van flexibele koppelingen dienen met behulp van trektuig of ankers te zijn bevestigd (pressure pipes fitted with flexible joints should be snubbed or anchored). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | les conduites forcées joints flexibles(articulés)doivent être élinguées(assujetties)ou ancrées (pressure pipes fitted with flexible joints should be snubbed or anchored). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | rüffelte, angefahren. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | οι σωλήνες πιέσεως με εύκαμπτους(αρθρωτούς)συνδέσμους πρέπει να στερεωθούν ή να αγκυρωθούν (pressure pipes fitted with flexible joints should be snubbed or anchored). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | i tubi a pressione,fissati con giunti flessibili,dovrebbero essere stabilizzati o ancorati (pressure pipes fitted with flexible joints should be snubbed or anchored). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 凹む (to be dented, to be indented, to be snubbed, to cave in, to collapse, to give, to sink, to yield to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | へ"む (to be dented, to be indented, to be snubbed, to cave in, to collapse, to give, to sink, to yield to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubbedsnay унижать униженный. (various references) los conductos a presion equipados con juntas flexibles deben estar amarrados o anclados (pressure pipes fitted with flexible joints should be snubbed or anchored). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"SNUBBED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shubber, snibbed, snubbe, snubber. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SNUBBED" (pronounced snu"bd) |
| 3 | -u" b d | clubbed, drubbed, dubbed, rubbed, scrubbed, stubbed, subbed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-d-e-n-s-u" | |
-1 letter: subbed, subdeb. | |
-2 letters: bends, bunds, bused, dunes, nudes. | |
-3 letters: beds, bedu, bend, bens, bubs, buds, bund, buns, debs, dens, dubs, dues, dune, duns, ebbs, ends, nebs, nubs, nude, send, sned, snub, sued, unbe, unde, used. | |
-4 letters: bed, ben, bub, bud, bun, bus, deb, den, dub, due, dun, ebb, eds, end, ens, neb, nub, nus. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-d-e-n-s-u" | |
+3 letters: unabsorbed. | |
+4 letters: blunderbuss, cumberbunds, landlubbers. | |
+5 letters: subdebutante, suburbanised, suburbanized. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4E 55 42 42 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -. ..- -... -... . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001110 01010101 01000010 01000010 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S N U B B E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004E 0055 0042 0042 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53485536363938 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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