snub

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a refusal to recognize someone you know

   The snub was clearly intentional.

2. 2
   verb

   reject outright and bluntly

   I snubbed their proposal.

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.

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