snub

/snʌb/

noun

Meaning

A deliberate affront or slight.
"I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub."
A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
A knot; a protuberance; a snag.

verb

Meaning

To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
To turn down; to dismiss.
"He snubbed my offer of help."
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.

Synonyms

cut someone cold,

cut someone dead,

give someone the cold shoulder,

turn the cold shoulder on someone

adjective

Meaning

Conspicuously short.
"a snub-nosed revolver"
Of the nose: flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
(of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.