- 2. Check (with a tart remark), stop, reprimand, reprove, rebuke, chide.
- 3. Abash (as a pretentious person), slight, humble, humiliate, shame, mortify, confound, disconcert,
discomfit, put down, take down, make ashamed, take down a peg, teach one one’s distance.
Snub, n.
- 1. Knot, protuberance, snag, jag, nub.
- 2. Check, rebuke, slight.
- 3. Snub-nose.
Snuff, n.
- 1. Sniff, inhalation (by the nose).
- 2. Resentment, huff, offence.
Snuff, v. a.
- 1. Inhale, breathe, sniff, breathe in.
- 2. Smell, scent.
Snuff, v. n.
- 1. Snort (as a horse).
- 2. Sniff.
- 3. Take offence.
Snuffle, v. n. Sniffle.
Snuff out. Extinguish, annihilate, obliterate, efface, destroy.
Snug, v. n. Snuggle, lie close, nestle.
Snug, a.
- 1. Close, concealed.
- 2. Comfortable, convenient, compact, neat, trim.