Other forms: snubbed, snubbing, snubs
A snub is a deliberate cold refusal to acknowledge somebody — walking past without speaking, not returning a greeting, leaving a name off a list. The point is that it is on purpose and that everybody notices.
It works as both noun and verb: she snubbed him, it was a clear snub. The word is common in news reporting about politics and awards, where a snub is somebody being pointedly left out. There is a separate and unrelated adjective, snub-nosed, meaning short and turned up at the end, said of noses, dogs and revolvers. Note the double b in snubbed and snubbing.
1nounsnubA deliberate refusal to acknowledge somebody.
“Being left off the list was taken as a snub.”
2verbignoreTo ignore somebody deliberately and obviously.
“She snubbed him at the reception in front of everybody.”
snub is a deliberate slight.
Old Norse snubba meant to chide or rebuff. The physical sense of snub-nosed came from a related idea of something cut short, and the two have stayed apart in English despite sharing a spelling.
Proto-Germanic
*snūbaną
Old Norse
snubba — to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove, rebuff, infringe
Middle English
snubben
English, today
snub
From Middle English snubben, snibben, either indigenous or from Old Norse snubba (“to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove, rebuff, infringe”), from Proto-Germanic snūbaną, snūpaną. Related to English snip, snap, snape, sneap, to Old Norse sneypa (among more), to Proto-Germanic snaupijaną. The original sense is visible in Nordic cognates, to an original sense of “pinching off” (→ “to repress, infringe”), really “snipping off” (Old Norse sneypa, Norwegian Nynorsk snøypa, Swedish snöpa, snoppa, snipa, snippa (“to pinch off, to squeeze off, to castrate”)), with nouns denoting “pinched end → point” (cf. Swedish snip (“snout, spout”), snibb (“lobe”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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