snub
verb
[ snʌb ]
• rebuff, ignore, or spurn disdainfully.
• "he snubbed faculty members and students alike"
Similar:
insult,
slight,
affront,
humiliate,
treat disrespectfully,
rebuff,
spurn,
repulse,
cold-shoulder,
brush off,
disdain,
scorn,
give someone the cold shoulder,
turn one's back on,
keep someone at arm's length,
cut (dead),
ignore,
take no notice of,
stiff,
give someone the brush-off,
freeze out,
stiff-arm,
knock back,
put down,
give someone the go-by,
misprize,
scout,
• check the movement of (a horse or boat), especially by a rope wound round a post.
• "a horse snubbed to a tree"
snub
noun
• an act of rebuffing or ignoring someone or something.
• "the move was a snub to the government"
snub
adjective
• (of a person's nose) short and turned up at the end.
• "snub-nosed"
Origin:
Middle English (as a verb, originally in the sense ‘rebuke with sharp words’): from Old Norse snubba ‘chide, check the growth of’. The adjective dates from the early 18th century.
