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SNUBBED

Definition: SNUBBED

SNUBBED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Snub

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SNUBBED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1798. (references)


Crosswords: SNUBBED

Specialty definitions using "SNUBBED": Hen-pecked. (references)

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Modern Usage: SNUBBED

DomainUsage

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.

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Usage Frequency: SNUBBED

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)47.76%3261,292
Lexical Verb (past tense)40.3%2766,962
Noun (proper)8.96%6143,867
Adjective (general or positive)2.99%2245,945
                    Total100.00%67N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SNUBBED

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

   

Russian 

  

унижать униженный. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: SNUBBED

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).

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Rhyming with "SNUBBED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "SNUBBED" (pronounced snu"bd)
3-u" b dclubbed, drubbed, dubbed, rubbed, scrubbed, stubbed, subbed.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: SNUBBED

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SNUBBED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4E 55 42 42 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.    ..-    -...    -...    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001110 01010101 01000010 01000010 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#78 &#85 &#66 &#66 &#69 &#68

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53485536363938

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INDEX

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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