| 释义 |
snubbed, ppl. a.|snʌbd|
[f. snub v.1]
1. Checked, restrained; repressed by snubbing.
1596Babington Brief Conf. 20 Their snubbed harts would call their snubs to remembrance. 1840Hood Up Rhine 228 The snubbed children of a family are often better than the spoiled ones. 1895Meredith Amazing Marriage xii, O but she was a snubbed young woman last night!
2. a. Turned up and flattened at the tip.
1802H. Martin Helen of Glenross I. 70 Mr. Isaac now saw beyond his nose, (no great distance, by the bye, for it is vulgarly snubbed). 1840Marryat Poor Jack viii, His nose [was] snubbed. 1862Borrow Wales cviii, A broad face, grey eyes, a snubbed nose [etc.].
b. Shortened, stumpy.
1835J. H. Ingraham South-West I. iii. 27 With swallow-tailed sterns, snubbed bows, and black hulls. 1903Trans. Inst. Naval Archit. XLV. 26 Conditions in which you may have the ‘snubbed’ finish of the curve of areas. |