Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A deliberate affront or slight. · A sudden checking of a cable or rope. · A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
Conspicuously short. · Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up. · Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone. · To turn down insultingly; to dismiss. · To check; to reprimand. · To stub out (a cigarette etc).
From Middle English snubben, snibben (noun), either from an undocumented Old English [Term?] or from Old Norse snubba (“to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove, rebuff, infringe”), from Proto-Germanic *snūbaną, *snūpaną. Related to English snip, snap, snape, sneap, to Old Norse sneypa (among more), to Proto-Germanic *snaupijaną. The original sense is visible in Nordic cognates, to an original sense of “pinching off” (→ “to repress, infringe”), really “snipping off” (Old Norse sneypa, Norwegian Nynorsk snøypa, Swedish snöpa, snoppa, snipa, snippa (“to pinch off, to squeeze off, to castrate”)), with nouns denoting “pinched end → point” (cf. Swedish snip (“snout, spout”), snibb (“lobe”)). Maybe distantly related to snoop (“be nosy”), to “pinched point” referencing snouts, i.e. the “pinched of point of the animal” (cf. Swedish snopp (“penis”)), then also maybe sniff. Compare Proto-Germanic *snabulaz; also English neb, nib (“beak, point”). Other cognate forms: Danish snubbe, snibbe, snibe, snippe, sneppe, snøbba; Swedish snebba, snåipa, snypa, snyppa.
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- Inherited-form mentionsnubbenenm
- Derivation mentionsnubbanon · to curse, chide, snub, scold, reprove, rebuff, infringe
- Derivation mention*snūbanągem-pro
- Cognate mentionsnipen
- Cognate mentionsneypanon
- Cognate mention*snaupijanągem-pro
- Cognate mentionsnøypann
- Cognate mentionsnöpasv
- Cognate mentionsnipsv
- Cognate mentionsnoppsv
- Cognate mention*snabulazgem-pro
- Cognate mentionneben
- Cognate mentionsnubbeda
- Cognate mentionsnebbasv
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