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Snub vs Snob - What's the difference?

snub | snob |

As nouns the difference between snub and snob

is that snub is a deliberate affront or slight while snob is a cobbler or shoemaker.

As an adjective snub

is conspicuously short.

As a verb snub

is to slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.

snub

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Conspicuously short.
  • *
  • *:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
  • Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
    • Derived terms
    * retrosnub * snub cube * snub disphenoid * snub dodecahedron * snub polyhedron * vertisnub

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • (obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
  • * Spenser
    • [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.
    Derived terms
    * snubbing post * snub line

    Verb

    (snubb)
  • To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
    • For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.
  • To turn down; to dismiss.
    • He snubbed my offer to help.
  • 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
    * (to slight or ignore) cut someone cold, cut someone dead

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) , and English snuff (transitive verb).

    Verb

    (snubb)
  • To sob with convulsions.
    • (Bailey)

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    snob

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia snob)
  • (colloquial) A cobbler or shoemaker.
  • * 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, p. 57:
    • The snobs were also kind to him, and gave him a pair of boots which they assured him were of a type and quality reserved entirely for officers […].
  • (dated) A member of the lower classes; a commoner.
  • * 1844 , (Charles Dickens), Martin Chuzzlewit :
    • 'D'ye know a slap-up sort of button, when you see it?' said the youth. 'Don't look at mine, if you ain't a judge, because these lions' heads was made for men of men of taste: not snobs .'
  • * 1913 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Poison Belt :
    • I tell you, sir, that I have a brain of my own, and that I should feel myself to be a snob and a slave if I did not use it.
  • (informal) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes.
  • * 1958 , (Arnold Wesker), Roots :
    • If wanting the best things in life means being a snob' then glory hallelujah I'm a ' snob .

    Derived terms

    * snobbery * snobbish * snobby

    Coordinate terms

    * posh * social climber

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