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单词 snubby
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snubbyn.

/ˈsnʌbi/
Forms: Also snubbie.
Etymology: Probably abbreviation of snub nose n. Additions 2 or snub-nosed adj., rather than directly < snubby adj.2
U.S. slang.
A small, cheap, short-barrelled handgun; a snub-nosed revolver.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol > types of
dag1587
key gun1607
pocket pistol1612
key pistol1663
holster-pistol1679
troop pistol1688
horse pistol1704
screw-barrel1744
saddle pistol1764
air pistol1780
Wogdon1786
belt pistol1833
dueller1835
Colt1838
tickler1844
Derringer1853
cocking pistol1858
belt size1866
bulldozer1880
saloon pistol1899
Luger1904
Police Positive1905
Steyr1920
Saturday-night pistol1929
muff pistol1938
PPK1946
Makarov1958
Saturday-night special1959
puffer1963
snub nose1979
snubby1981
1981 Washington Post 22 Nov. c1/3 (heading) Ban ‘snubbies’ and solve the great handgun debate.
1983 E. Leonard LaBrava (1985) xv. 158 You want a snubbie. This one, .38 Special, two-inch barrel.
1984 New Yorker 12 Nov. 133/1 That arsenal is made up chiefly of snub-nosed handguns—or snubbies, as they're called. The snubbies are more dangerous than bigger handguns for the obvious reason that they are so easily concealable.
1986 Target Gun Aug. 17/1 They are hardly concealable—an essential element of the snubby concept—and they carry adjustable sights.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

snubbyadj.1

Etymology: < snub n.1 4.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsnubby.
rare.
Knotty.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [adjective] > of or having knots
knarryc1405
knottedc1440
crabbed?1518
knubbed1567
warried1567
warry1567
scraggy1574
crab-knob1582
knurly1602
gnarleda1616
thwarterous1625
nodous1646
snubbya1758
snarly1770
swirly1786
gnarly1846
knarred1849
a1758 M. Mendez Seasons, Summer 1 in Coll. Poems (1770) II. 233 Beneath yon snubby oak's extended shade.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

snubbyadj.2

/ˈsnʌbi/
Etymology: < snub adj. Compare Swedish dialect snubbug, snubbi, Icelandic snubbóttr (Norwegian snubbutt) in same sense.
Somewhat snub; short, stumpy.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [adjective] > types of nose
cammed?c1350
camoisc1380
snatteda1387
camoisedc1515
flat1560
hawked1577
rising1606
simous1634
aquiline1646
Roman1665
snoutya1685
suspense1697
rhinocerical1710
rhinocerotic1755
Bardolphian1756
cock-up1763
bridgeless1772
retroussé1802
snubbed1802
snubbish1828
snubby1828
snipish1834
snub1843
pugged1847
puggisha1849
tip-tilted1872
saddleback1897
beak-sharp1933
spitzy1968
(a)
1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 23 494 What a snout he turns up to the morning air,..pimpled, snubby, and snorty.
1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. vii. 108 Her little straight nose, not at all snubby.
1894 E. Sullivan Woman 69 If Cleopatra's nose had been..a little more snubby or a little more aquiline.
(b)1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 262 What a snubby point you've got to your pencil.1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys iv The snubby end of her little freckled nose.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

snubbyadj.3

/ˈsnʌbi/
Etymology: < snub v.1
Inclined to snub; repressing with snubs.
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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [adjective] > humiliating
dismounting1562
abasing1615
humiliating1757
humiliative1821
snubbish1840
humiliant1844
snubby1867
humiliatory1872
snubbing1887
lowering1899
deflating1933
1867 E. V. B. in Cornhill Mag. (1907) Feb. 196 She would not understand. She was just a little snubby, I thought.
1889 ‘F. Anstey’ Pariah i. iii You were so very snubby to that poor Mr. Chadwick.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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