Lexicographical Neighbors of Snubbings
Literary usage of Snubbings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1873)
"Snod, adj. even, smooth. Hence mod-grass. Snub, v. to check, or correct roughly.
[snubbings in Yorks are ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"He took his snubbings with outward composure, for the most part, gradually growing
to inward delight. He questioned her judgment, and contradicted her, ..."
3. Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope (1864)
"... and took snubbings from no man. He was a Knight of the Garter, a Lord Lieutenant
of his county, and at sixty-two had his digestion unimpaired and his ..."
4. Campaigns of a Non-combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend (1866)
"... I struck out for general head-quarters, and, undergoing repeated snubbings
from pert members of staff, fell in at length, with a very tall, spare, ..."
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