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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
snub/snʌb/

▶verb (snubs, snubbing, snubbed)

1 ignore or spurn disdainfully.

2 restrict the movement of (a horse or boat) by means of a rope wound round a post.

▶noun an act of snubbing. ▶adjective (of a person's nose) short and turned up at the end.

– origin ME: from ON snubba ‘chide, check the growth of’.

'snub' also found in these Oxford entries:

go-by - Pekinese - stiff

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