SNUBBING

Definition: SNUBBING

SNUBBING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Snub

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "SNUBBING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

Domain	Definition
Mining	A. A term applied by bluestone quarrymen to the process of forcing a cross break in the absence of an open seam. b. Increasing the height of an undercut by picking or blasting down thecoal, just above the undercut. (references)
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Crosswords: SNUBBING

Specialty definitions using "SNUBBING": Dowse on the Chops ♦ MacTab. (references)

"SNUBBING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 89.47% of the time. "SNUBBING" is used about 19 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 (-ing form)	89.47%	17	85,106
Noun (singular)	10.53%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	19	N/A

Expressions using "SNUBBING": snubbing device ♦ snubbing line ♦ snubbing post ♦ snubbing unit. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "SNUBBING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		noedstoeddaemperindretning (emergency snubbing device), gribepaavirkning paa kontrolstang (control rod snubbing impact), bremsetov (snub line, snubbing line). (various references)

Dutch		remkabel (snub line, snubbing line). (various references)

Finnish		nolaus. (various references)

French		renvoi (snubbing unit), dispositif antidérapant (snubbing device), câble � freiner (snub line, snubbing line), équipement de forage sous pression (snubbing unit). (various references)

German		anfahrend (starting). (various references)

Greek		κρούσις κατά την πρόσπτωση ράβδου ρυθμίσεως (control rod snubbing impact), καλώδιον πεδήσεως (snub line, snubbing line), συσκευή εφεδρικής προσκρούσεως (emergency snubbing device), συγκρότημα ανάσχεσης (snubbing unit), εξοπλισμός γεώτρησης υπό πίεση (snubbing unit). (various references)

Italian		unit� di arresto (snubbing unit), fune frenante (snub line, snubbing line), Dispositivo ammortizzatore d'emergenza (emergency snubbing device), Colpo d'arresto della barra di controllo (control rod snubbing impact), attrezzatura per la perforazione a pressione (snubbing unit). (various references)

Pig Latin		ubbingsnay

Portuguese		unidade de retenção (snubbing unit), dispositivo amortecedor de emergência (emergency snubbing device), cabo de frenar (snub line, snubbing line), amortecedor de impacto das barras de controlo (control rod snubbing impact). (various references)

Russian		унижать унижение. (various references)

Spanish		unidad restrictora (snubbing unit), impacto de detención de las barras de regulación (control rod snubbing impact), equipo para la perforación a presión (snubbing unit), dispositivo de detención de emergencia (emergency snubbing device), cable de frenado (snub line, snubbing line). (various references)

Swedish		snäsa. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự l� m nhục (abasement, humiliation, indignity, snub), sự l� m mất mặt (defacement, snub), sự l� m cụt vòi, sự chỉnh (jaw, propriety, seemliness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"SNUBBING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: slubbing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "SNUBBING" (pronounced snu"bing)
4	-u" b i ng	clubbing, drubbing, dubbing, rubbing, scrubbing, subbing.
3	-b i ng	absorbing, bobbing, bribing, curbing, dabbing, describing, disturbing, ebbing, gabbing, grabbing, hobbing, hobnobbing, jabbing, lobbing, nabbing, prescribing, probing, ribbing, robbing, sobbing, stabbing, subscribing, tabbing, throbbing, transcribing, tubing, webbing.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-b-g-i-n-n-s-u"
	-1 letter: nubbins, subbing.
	-2 letters: busing, nubbin.
	-3 letters: bungs, bunns, suing, using.
	-4 letters: bibs, bigs, bins, bubs, bugs, bung, bunn, buns, gibs, gins, gnus, guns, inns, nibs, nubs, nuns, sibb, sign, sing, snib, snub, snug, sung, sunn.
	-5 letters: bib, big, bin, bis, bub, bug, bun, bus, gib, gin, gnu, gun, inn, ins, nib, nub, nun, nus, sib.
	Words containing the letters "b-b-g-i-n-n-s-u"
	+5 letters: suburbanising, suburbanizing.
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