Adjective: snubby
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | snubbier |
| Superlative | snubbiest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more snubby |
| Superlative | most snubby |
Sample Sentences
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Both have mottled legs,
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Both have snubby noses,
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Both have—Here the host
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Kindly interposes: [1842, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Peg of Limavady”, in The Irish Sketchbook, lines 69–72:]
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Well, for more than five years that was me—an alert young chap with a round, pink, snubby kind of face and butter-coloured hair […] [1939, George Orwell, chapter 7, in Coming Up for Air:]
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Armed with snubby flintlock and limber blade, Weaver does his crime busting in London during the second decade of the 18th century. [2000 February 28, R. Z. Sheppard, “Follow the Paper”, in Time:]
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There was not much of it: the wheelbase was only ninety inches and the track precisely half of that, with a little cast-iron side-valve engine of 918cm² cowering in the depths beneath the snubby bonnet. [2006, L. J. K. Setright, Long Lane with Turnings: Last Words of a Motoring Legend, London: Granta Books, page 36:]
Adjectives inflected like snubby
snubby,
snithy,
snorty,
snoopy,
sainty,
screwy,
scowly,
schizy,
smacky,
slimsy,
slanty,
slaggy,
songly,
soothy,
shysty,
shiply,
skeezy,
beastly,
yearny,
whip-creamy, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology