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snubbish en · ADJ

Etymology

From snub + -ish.

Meanings

1. Somewhat snub.
   • a snubbish nose
2. Inclined to snub or belittle others.
   • There's your snubbish faux-punk fashion crowd, the commercial fashion crowd who are still snubbish but much more buttoned-down, […] 2006, Roz Bailey, Retail Therapy, page 187:
   • Spirit of Kant! have we not had enough / To make Religion sad, and sour, and snubbish, / But Saints Zoological must cant their stuff, / As vessels cant their ballast — rattling rubbish! 1834, Thomas Hood, Tylney Hall:

Forms

Deriveds

snubbishness · snubbishly