snub
adjective/snʌb/
/snʌb/
[only before noun]- (of a nose) short, flat and turned up at the endWord OriginMiddle English (as a verb, originally in the sense ‘rebuke with sharp words’): from Old Norse snubba ‘chide, check the growth of’. The adjective dates from the early 18th cent.
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