[f. SNUB a. Cf. Sw. dial. snubbug, snubbi, Icel. snubbóttr (Norw. snubbutt) in same sense.] Somewhat snub; short, stumpy.
(a) 1828. Blackw. Mag., XXIII. 494. What a snout he turns up to the morning air,… pimpled, snubby, and snorty.
1860. Geo. Eliot, Mill on Floss, I. 108. Her little straight nose, not at all snubby.
1894. Sir E. Sullivan, Woman, 69. If Cleopatra’s nose had been … a little more snubby or a little more aquiline.
(b) 1854. Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., s.v., What a snubby point you’ve got to your pencil.
1865. Whitney, Gayworthys, iv. The snubby end of her little freckled nose.
