Snub \Snub\, v. i. [Cf. D. snuiven to snort, to pant, G. schnauben, MHG. sn[=u]ben, Prov. G. schnupfen, to sob, and E. snuff, v.t.] To sob with convulsions. [Obs.] --Bailey.
Snub \Snub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snubbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Snubbing}.] [Cf. Icel. ssnubba to snub, chide, Sw. snubba, Icel. snubb[=o]ttr snubbed, nipped, and E. snib.] 1. To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.
2. To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check. --J. Foster.
3. To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.
{To snub a cable} or {To snub a rope} (Naut.), to check it suddenly in running out. --Totten.
Snub \Snub\, n. 1. A knot; a protuberance; a song. [Obs.]
[A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain. --Spenser.
2. A check or rebuke; an intended slight. --J. Foster.
{Snub nose}, a short or flat nose.
{Snub post}, or {Snubbing post} (Naut.), a post on a dock or shore, around which a rope is thrown to check the motion of a vessel.
Trading in the shares is due to start on October 27. During the past two weeks, it became apparent that the issue was likely to run into trouble. The snub from investors has put the ministry under fire for the way it has managed initial public offerings.
East German craftsmen and bakers, for example, often take jobs that many young West Germans snub.
Was Mr. Iacocca upset by the snub?
Buthelezi said Sisulu's action was a snub to the Zulu people and an attempt to belittle their history.
On street corners and in offices and hospitals, the country's non-smoking majority encouraged smokers to snub out their cigarettes today for the 13th annual Great American Smokeout.
If all this sounds like a snub, it probably is.
A leader of a tourism boycott says the sending of a 2-year-old proclamation to Nelson Mandela fails to make up for what protesters see as a snub of the South African anti-apartheid leader.
After a defection he remembers as more exasperating than dramatic ("two days we stood in line for our immigration papers"), the Karolyis waited in vain for U.S. coaching offers, a snub that still rankles.
It was not a deliberate snub.
Oddly, he seemed to snub almost half the relatives, ignoring the final three rows of grief-stricken families.
Though Mandela never mentioned the snub he received in Miami, he praised the love-in Detroit held for him.