snub

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A deliberate affront or slight.
    — I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub.
  2. A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
  3. A knot; a protuberance; a snag. obsolete
    — [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.
动词 v.
  1. To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone. transitive
    — When, therefore, the First Secretary sounded him as to the expediency of some step in the direction of a firmer political combination than that at present existing,—by which of course was meant the dethronement of the present Prime Minister,—Mr. Roby had snubbed him!
  2. To sob with convulsions.
    — He striveth, strugleth, roareth, sobbeth, snubbeth, and ready he is to burst for anger.
  3. To turn down insultingly; to dismiss. transitive
    — He snubbed my offer of help.
  4. To check; to reprimand. transitive
  5. To stub out (a cigarette etc). transitive
  6. To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner. transitive
  7. To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of. transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Conspicuously short.
    — a snub-nosed revolver
  2. Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
    — It was even less easy to fix the impression in the case of the man at the right end of the table, who, to say truth, was as commonplace a person as could be seen anywhere, with a round, brown-haired head and a round snub nose, but also clad in clerical black, of a stricter cut.
  3. Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.

词形变化

more snub comparative most snub superlative snubs plural snubs present,singular,third-person snubbing participle,present snubbed participle,past snubbed past snubs present,singular,third-person snubbing participle,present snubbed participle,past snubbed past

词汇关系

衍生词
retrosnub snubbish snub cube snub disphenoid snub dodecahedron snubfin snubness snub nose snub-nosed snub polyhedron snub square antiprism give someone the snub snubbing post snub post snub line snubproof phub snubbable snubbee snubber snubbery snubbingly unsnubbed

词源

词源 1
From Middle English snubben (also snibben), from Old Norse snubba (“to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove”), which, like the source of English snip, is probably imitative in some manner. Cognate with Danish snibbe, dialectal Swedish snebba.
词源 2
From Middle English snubben, snobben (“to sob”). Compare Dutch snuiven (“to snort, to pant”), German schnauben, German dialect schnupfen (“to sob”), and English snuff (transitive verb).
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