Snub vs Goods - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between snub and goods

is that snub is a deliberate affront or slight while goods is (business|economics|plurale tantum) that which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.

As an adjective snub

is conspicuously short.

As a verb snub

is to slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone or snub can be to sob with convulsions.

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)

Anagrams

* *

goods

English

Noun

(head)

(business, economics, plurale tantum) That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.

(informal, often preceded by the) Something authentic, important, or revealing.

(transport) freight (not passengers)

English plurals

Usage notes

* Adjectives often applied to produced, traded, or consumed "goods": returned, used, damaged, stolen, lost, dangerous, non-traded, intermediate, promotional, industrial, agricultural, imported, cheap, expensive, luxury, inferior, counterfeit, raw, processed, scarce, durable, perishable, baked, public, collective, digital, virtual, necessary, essential.

Synonyms

* (that which is consumed) wares * evidence, facts

Antonyms

* (that which is consumed) capital, services

Derived terms

* baked goods * bill of goods * brown goods * capital goods * come up with the goods * consumer goods * cost of goods sold * damaged goods * dangerous goods * deliver the goods * digital goods * dry goods * fancy goods * finished goods * get the goods on, have the goods on * goods and sales tax * goods train, goods van, goods wagon * grave goods * greige goods * heavy goods vehicle * leathergoods * nongoods * red goods * sell someone a bill of goods * smallgoods * softgoods * white goods

External links

* (wikipedia "goods")