snubs

1. A deliberate affront or slight.

   I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub.

2. A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
3. A knot; a protuberance; a snag.

1. To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
2. To turn down; to dismiss.

   He snubbed my offer of help.

3. To check; to reprimand.
4. To stub out (a cigarette etc).
5. To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
6. To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.

verb

To sob with convulsions.