snub

/snสŒb/

IPA: /S N AH1 B/

noun
  1. 1

    A deliberate affront or slight.

    โ€œI hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub.โ€

  2. 2

    A sudden checking of a cable or rope.

  3. 3

    A knot; a protuberance; a snag.

verb
  1. 1

    To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.

  2. 2

    To turn down; to dismiss.

    โ€œHe snubbed my offer of help.โ€

  3. 3

    To check; to reprimand.

  4. 4

    To stub out (a cigarette etc).

  5. 5

    To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.

  6. 6

    To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.

adjective
  1. 1

    Conspicuously short.

    โ€œa snub-nosed revolverโ€

  2. 2

    Of the nose: flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.

  3. 3

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

verb
  1. 1

    To sob with convulsions.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snub