The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SNUB , but the solution may also be REBUFF which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Give the cold shoulder crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SNUB | 44 % | 4 |
| SHUN | 22 % | 4 |
| IGNORE | 17 % | 6 |
| SPURN | 11 % | 5 |
| REBUFF | 6 % | 6 |
Why may REBUFF be the right solution?
"Give the cold shoulder" is a phrase that means to ignore or reject someone. "Rebuff" means to reject someone in an abrupt or ungracious manner, making it a suitable answer for this clue.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Give the cold shoulder
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- ignore
- snub
- reject
- dismiss
- refuse
- ding
- turn off
- disheveled
- forsake
- turn down
- defeat
- averted
Crossword Answer definitions
SNUB noun- A deliberate affront or slight.
- A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
- A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
- To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
- To turn down; to dismiss.
- To check; to reprimand.
- To stub out (a cigarette etc).
- To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
- To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
- Conspicuously short.
- Of the nose: flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
- (of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
- To sob with convulsions.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SNUB
- Rebuff
- Leave off the nominations
- Oscar ___ (the Academy's choice not to nominate a critically acclaimed work)
- Turn one's nose up
- Un-invite, maybe
- Slight
- Social insult
- Ignore contemptuously
- Affront
- High-hat
More clues leading to the result SHUN
- Avoid
- Deliberately avoid
- Keep away from
- Eschew
- Steer clear of
- Scrupulously avoid
- Blackball
- Treat with disdain, in a way
- Give the cold shoulder
- Cold-shoulder
More clues leading to the result IGNORE
- Disregard
- Give the cold shoulder
- Avoid
- Pretend not to hear, say
- Shrug off
- Pretend not to notice
- Neglect
- Snub
- Pay no heed to
- Give the cold-shoulder treatment
More clues leading to the result SPURN
- Give the cold-shoulder
- Look down on
- Reject disdainfully
- Reject with scorn
- Turn a cold shoulder to
- Brush aside
- Reject roughly
- Blow off
- Cold-shoulder
- Give the cold shoulder to