Snub \Snub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snubbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Snubbing.]

[Cf. Icel. ssnubba to snub, chide, Sw. snubba, Icel. snubb[=o]ttr snubbed, nipped, and E. snib.]

1. To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.

2. To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check. --J. Foster.

3. To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.

To snub a cable or rope (Naut.), to check it suddenly in running out. --Totten.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Snub \Snub\, n.

1. A knot; a protuberance; a song. [Obs.]

[A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain. --Spenser.

2. A check or rebuke; an intended slight. --J. Foster.

Snub nose, a short or flat nose.

Snub post, or Snubbing post (Naut.), a post on a dock or shore, around which a rope is thrown to check the motion of a vessel.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Snub \Snub\, v. i. [Cf. D. snuiven to snort, to pant, G. schnauben, MHG. sn[=u]ben, Prov. G. schnupfen, to sob, and E. snuff, v.t.]

To sob with convulsions. [Obs.]

--Bailey.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)