TO SNUB

Definition: SNUB

SNUB

Adjective

1. Unusually short; "a snub nose".

Noun

1. An instance of driving away or warding off.

2. A refusal to recognize someone you know; "the snub was clearly intentional".

Verb

1. Refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting".

2. Reject outright and bluntly.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Food & Agriculture

Slang in 1811

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "TO SNUB": To snub a cable ♦ to snub a rope. Additional references.

Danish

bremse (brake, gadfly, gad-fly, horsefly, horse-fly). (various references)

French

retenir (to carry), freiner. (various references)

German

aufhalten (abstract, arrest, check, delay, detain, halt, hang onto, hinder, hold, hold up, interrupt, keep, keep back, keep open, kept, obstruct, restrain, retain, retard, sojourn, stem, stop, to arrest, to delay, to detain, to hold up, to sojourn, to stop), abseilen (lower down on a rope, rope, rope down), abbremsen (slow down, to slow down). (various references)

Hungarian

letorkol (snub, to put down, to squash, to squelch), hirtelen lefékez (to pull up, to pull up short). (various references)

Italian

frenare (brake, check, contain, control, curb, restrain, stem). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay ubsnay

Portuguese

frenar. (various references)

Spanish

amortiguar (absorb, attanuate, attenuate, bedim, blanket, break, cushion, deaden, extenuate, leak, muffle, mute, silence, soften). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bonus, bosun, bouts, bunts, snout, tonus.

-2 letters: bots, bout, buns, bunt, bust, buts, nobs, nous, nubs, nuts, onus, oust, outs, snob, snot, snub, stob, stub, stun, tons, tubs, tuns, unto.

-3 letters: bos, bot, bun, bus, but, nob, nos, not, nub, nus, nut, ons, out, sob, son, sot, sou, sub, sun, ton, tub, tun.

+1 letter: boutons, burtons, buttons, cobnuts, obtunds, subtone, unbolts.

+2 letters: botulins, bounties, burnouts, burstone, butanols, gunboats, outburns, postburn, stubborn, subtaxon, subtones, subtonic, tubenose.

+3 letters: ablutions, abutilons, autobahns, bluestone, botulinus, bouffants, bounciest, bounteous, brownouts, buhrstone, burgonets, burrstone, burstones, butanones, buttoners, curbstone, downburst, dubonnets, eastbound, isobutane, misbutton, obscurant, obtrusion, rebuttons, runabouts, softbound, subcounty, sublation, subpotent, subtaxons, subtonics, sunbonnet, tenebrous, thornbush, tubenoses, turbofans, unbonnets, unbuttons, westbound.