snub
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Conspicuously short.
- Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
- Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
Noun
- A deliberate affront or slight.
- A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
- A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
Verb
- To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
- To turn down insultingly; to dismiss.
- To check; to reprimand.
- To stub out (a cigarette etc).
- To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
- To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
- To sob with convulsions.
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