Meaning

3 senses

  1. Conspicuously short.

    a snub-nosed revolver

    unusually short

  2. Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.

  3. Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.

Examples

19 sentences

  1. Tom said that he felt snubbed.

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  2. Tom said he felt snubbed.

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  3. I felt snubbed.

    deIch fühlte mich vor den Kopf gestoßen. — Yorwba

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  4. Tom snubbed Mary.

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  5. Tom felt snubbed.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

From Middle English snubben, snibben (noun), either indigenous or from Old Norse snubba (“

From Middle English snubben, snibben (noun), either indigenous or from Old Norse snubba (“to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove, rebuff, infringe”), from Proto-Germanic *snūbaną, *snūpaną.

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Forms

more snub, most snub
Comparativemore snub Lesson
Superlativemost snub Lesson

regular

Word family

9 related words
Derivedretrosnubsnubbishsnub cubesnub disphenoidsnub dodecahedronsnubfinsnubnesssnub nosesnub-nosed

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
snowshoesnowstormB1snowyA1snuffsnug

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