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   snub

   /snʌb/

   verb

   • 1. rebuff, ignore, or spurn disdainfully: "he snubbed faculty members and students alike"
   • 2. check the movement of (a horse or boat), especially by a rope wound round a post: "a horse snubbed to a tree"

   noun

   • 1. an act of rebuffing or ignoring someone or something: "the move was a snub to the government"

   adjective

   • 1. (of a person's nose) short and turned up at the end: "snub-nosed"

   Word 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.

   Scrabble Points: 6

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