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▪ I. snubbing, vbl. n.|ˈsnʌbɪŋ|
[f. snub v.1]
1. a. The action of checking, repressing, or rebuking, esp. by means of a snub.
1600Surflet Countrie Farme vi. xxii. 778 At the least by snubbing and checking of naturall heat. 1693Bampfield Reply to Wallis 55 Other snubbing of Sunday..I remember none, but he often calls the Lords Sabbath by a reflecting addition. 1768Goldsm. Good-n. Man iv, I did hear him say, a little snubbing, before marriage, would teach you to bear it the better afterwards. 1861Sat. Rev. 14 Sept. 268 By cultivating the art of snubbing. 1876F. E. Trollope Charming Fellow III. xxv. 302 The kind-hearted little spinster endured a vast amount of snubbing.
attrib.1869Trollope He Knew, etc. xlii. (1878) 231 On that occasion,..being in a snubbing humour, [she] had snubbed him.
b. An instance of this.
1841J. H. Newman in Apologia (1864) 241, I have managed to take out on my side my snubbing's worth. 1857S. Osborn Quedah xii. 153 They got a severe snubbing for doing so. 1896A. J. C. Hare Story Life II. viii. 99, I was more free from family snubbings than I had ever been before.
2. Naut. and U.S. (See snub v.1 2 b.)
1846A. Young Naut. Dict. 288 Snubbing, checking or easing off a little of a ship's cable or hawser, in order to prevent a sudden jerk when bringing the vessel up, or on other occasions. 1889A. T. Pask Eyes Thames 69 The snubbing of the chain gives a disagreeable jerking which is trying to the system.
b. attrib., as snubbing-line, snubbing-post.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2231/2 Snubbing-line, the line on the bow of a canal-boat [etc.]. 1887Sci. Amer. 21 May 326/2 A stout line is carried forward, and the ends are attached..to snubbing posts. 1888Century Mag. Mar. 655/2 The high, circular horse-corral, with a snubbing-post in the center. 1900Engineering Mag. XIX. 665 The checking of the ship when afloat is done exclusively by snubbing lines.
3. The action of reducing or suppressing oscillation; damping.
1951C. E. Crede Vibration & Shock Isolation iii. 112 (heading) Effect of snubbing. 1961Harris & ― Shock & Vibration Handbk. III. xlv. 24 Because car loading can change from trip to trip, practical considerations dictate a compromise both in the selection of load springs and in the design of a snubbing means.
▪ II. ˈsnubbing, ppl. a.
[f. snub v.1]
Of the nature of a snub; repressing by a snub or snubs.
1887? Miss Ingham Poor Nellie (1888) 120 He hoped Adela had not thought his abrupt departure rude and snubbing. 1900E. Glyn Visits Elizabeth (1906) 20, I was not once agreeable, or anything but stiff and snubbing.
So ˈsnubbingly adv., in a snubbing manner.
1861Meredith Evan Harrington I. xi. 205 The chairman welcomed them a trifle snubbingly. 1883R. Broughton Belinda i. vi, ‘You never do anything but what you wish yourself?’ asks Rivers snubbingly. |
