snubby – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of snubby

Adjective: snubby

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativesnubbier
Superlativesnubbiest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore snubby
Superlativemost snubby

Sample Sentences

  • Both have mottled legs,
  • Both have snubby noses,
  • Both have—Here the host
  • Kindly interposes: [1842, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Peg of Limavady”, in The Irish Sketchbook, lines 69–72:]
  • 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:]
  • 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:]
  • 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