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indignity
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French indignité, from Latin indignitas
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?d??.n?.ti/
Noun
indignity (countable and uncountable, plural indignities)
- degradation, debasement or humiliation
- an affront to one's dignity or pride
Related terms
- indign
- indignant
- indignation
- dignity
Translations
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snub
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sn?b/
- Rhymes: -?b
Etymology 1
From Middle English snubben (also snibben), from Old Norse snubba (“to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove”). Cognate with Danish snibbe, dialectal Swedish snebba.
Adjective
snub (comparative more snub, superlative most snub)
- Conspicuously short.
- Of the nose: flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
- 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.
- (mathematics, of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
snub (plural snubs)
- 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.
Derived terms
- snubbing post
- snub line
Translations
Verb
snub (third-person singular simple present snubs, present participle snubbing, simple past and past participle snubbed)
- (transitive) 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.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- (transitive) To turn down; to dismiss.
- He snubbed my offer of help.
- (transitive) To check; to reprimand.
- (transitive) To stub out (a cigarette etc).
- (transitive) To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
- (transitive) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
Synonyms
- (to slight or ignore): give someone the cold shoulder, turn the cold shoulder on someone, cut someone cold, cut someone dead
Translations
Etymology 2
Compare Dutch snuiven (“to snort, to pant”), German schnauben, German dialect schnupfen (“to sob”), and English snuff (transitive verb).
Verb
snub (third-person singular simple present snubs, present participle snubbing, simple past and past participle snubbed)
- To sob with convulsions.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bailey to this entry?)
Anagrams
- Buns, buns, nubs
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