snubbish

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English

Etymology

From snub +‎ -ish.

Adjective

snubbish (comparative more snubbish, superlative most snubbish)

  1. Somewhat snub.
    a snubbish nose
  2. Inclined to snub or belittle others.
    • 1834, Thomas Hood, Tylney Hall:
      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!
    • 2006, Roz Bailey, Retail Therapy, page 187:
      There's your snubbish faux-punk fashion crowd, the commercial fashion crowd who are still snubbish but much more buttoned-down, []