Also 6 snobbe, snubbe. [f. SNUB v.1 Cf. MSw. and Norw. snubba in sense 1; Sw. dial. snubba a short-stemmed pipe, short-horned cow.]
I. 1. An act or instance of snubbing; a remark or action intended to repress or rebuke a person.
1537. Cranmer, in State Papers Hen. VIII., I. 562. Although in the meane season you suffre some snubbes … for the same, yet one day He will requite altogether.
1583. Babington, Commandm. (1590), 209. When euer any snubs and checkes in worde or countenance vndeserued arise.
1598. Stow, Surv., 470. In which Tragedie London … had now and then a part, and had many a snubbe at the kinges hand.
a. 1688. Bunyan, Israel’s Hope Encouraged, Wks. 1852, I. 589. This word ‘let’ is sometimes used by way of rebuke and snub.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), VIII. 10. I … must have been accustomed to snubs and rebuffs from the affluent.
1861. Sat. Rev., 14 Sept., 269. When we endeavour to analyse it, the immediate effect of a snub is to induce a feeling or deprivation and exposure.
1885. Manch. Exam., 11 March, 5/5. Mr. Gladstone … administered to the most presumptuous member of the House a proper snub.
† 2. A check, stop, stay, hindrance. Obs.
1581. T. Lawson, Orchett (MS. Lansd. 208 lf. 142 b). Mortimer in all haist pursued ye Saxons, And gaue thame snobbes with his Britons.
1615. W. Lawson, Country Housew. Garden (1626), 18. Thriuing without snub he will ouerlay your grafted Stocke much.
1672. P. Henry, Diaries & Lett. (1882), 248. Exchequer stopt from issuing forth moneyes to pay debts for this year, a snub to trade.
3. U.S. A sudden check given to a rope or cable in running out; a post or stake enabling this to be done.
1891. in Cent. Dict.
II. † 4. A snag or stub. Obs.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. viii. 7. Lifting vp his dreadfull club on hight, All arm’d with ragged snubbes and knottie graine.
5. Mech. ? = SNUG sb.1 2.
1844. Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., VII. 19/2. The swings are attached to the frame by means of snubs…, which are bolted vertically to the lower ends of the swings.
