snubbish
English
Etymology
snub + -ish
Adjective
snubbish (comparative more snubbish, superlative most snubbish)
- Somewhat snub.
- a snubbish nose
- 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, […]
- 1834, Thomas Hood, Tylney Hall