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Snub vs Snib - What's the difference?

snub | snib |

Snib is a synonym of snub.



In obsolete terms the difference between snub and snib

is that snub is a knot; a protuberance; a snag while snib is a reprimand; a snub.

As nouns the difference between snub and snib

is that snub is a deliberate affront or slight while snib is a latch or fastening for a door, window etc.

As verbs the difference between snub and snib

is that snub is to slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone while snib is to latch (a door, window etc.).

As an adjective snub

is conspicuously short.

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

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    snib

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) A latch or fastening for a door, window etc.
  • *2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 99:
  • *:He did not like me coming in except if I was going to bed. I heard him saying to my maw about a snib for the door.
  • (obsolete) A reprimand; a snub.
    • (Marston)

    Verb

    (snibb)
  • (Scotland) To latch (a door, window etc.).
  • *1890 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Sign of the Four , VI:
  • *:‘Window is snibbed on the inner side. Frame-work is solid. No hinges at the side. Let us open it.’

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