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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Snub \Snub\, verb (used without an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Snub \Snub\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Snub \Snub\, noun
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
snub
adjective: unusually short; "a snub nose"
noun
1: an instance of driving away or warding off [syn: {rebuff}, {repulse}]
2: a refusal to recognize someone you know; "the snub was clearly intentional" [syn: {cut}, {cold shoulder}]
verb
1: refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting" [syn: {ignore}, {disregard}, {cut}]
2: reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal" [syn: {rebuff}, {repel}] [also: {snubbing}, {snubbed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
201 Moby Thesaurus words for "snub": abbreviate, abbreviated, abridge, abridged, abstract, abstracted, arrest, ban, banish, beat back, blackball, bob, bobbed, boil down, bottle up, bridle, brush off, brush-off, capsule, capsulize, capsulized, cast out, chase, chase away, chase off, check, clip, clipped, cold shoulder, cold-shoulder, compress, compressed, condense, condensed, constrain, contain, contract, control, cool, cool off, countercheck, crop, cropped, curb, curtail, curtailed, cut, cut back, cut direct, cut down, cut off short, cut short, dam up, damp, dampen, decelerate, delay, deport, detain, digested, disfellowship, dismiss, dismissal, disregard, dock, docked, dompt, drive away, drive back, elide, elided, elliptic, enjoin, epitomize, exclude, excommunicate, exile, expatriate, expel, extradite, fend off, foreshorten, fugitate, govern, guard, high-hat, hinder, hold, hold at bay, hold back, hold fast, hold in, hold in check, hold in leash, hold off, hold up, humiliation, impede, inhibit, intercept, interfere, intermeddle, interrupt, intervene, keep, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep off, keep under control, lay under restraint, meddle, mow, mowed, mown, nip, nipped, not receive, oppose, ostracize, outlaw, pack off, poll, pollard, polled, prohibit, proscribe, prune, pruned, pull, pull in, push back, put back, put down, reap, reaped, rebuff, recap, recapitulate, reduce, refusal, refuse, refuse to receive, rein, rein in, relegate, repel, repress, repulse, resist, restrain, retard, retrench, rusticate, scotch, send away, send down, send off, send packing, send to Coventry, set back, shave, shaved, shear, sheared, short-cut, shorten, shortened, slacken, slight, slow down, sneer, sniff, snob, snort, snubbed, spurn, spurning, straiten, stunt, sum up, summarize, suppress, swank, synopsize, take in, telescope, the cold shoulder, the go-by, thrust back, thrust out, transport, trim, trimmed, truncate, turn away from, turn back, upstage, ward off, withhold
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