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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To reject disdainfully or contemptuously; scorn. See Synonyms at refuse1.
  2. v. To kick at or tread on disdainfully.
  3. v. To reject something contemptuously.
  4. n. A contemptuous rejection.
  5. n. Archaic A kick.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To kick against; kick; drive back or away with the foot.
  2. To strike against.
  3. To reject with disdain; scorn to receive or consort with; treat with contempt.
  4. To kick.
  5. To dash the foot against something: light on something unexpectedly; stumble.
  6. To dash; rush.
  7. To manifest disdain or contempt in rejecting anything; make contemptuous opposition; manifest contempt or disdain in resistance.
  8. n. A blow with the foot; a kick.
  9. n. A stumble; a fall.
  10. n. Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
  11. n. In mining, one of the narrow pillars or connections left between the holings, and not cut away until just before the withdrawal of the sprags.
  12. n. A spur.
  13. n. A piece of wood having one end inserted in the ground, and the other nailed at an angle to a gate-post, for the purpose of strengthening or supporting it.
  14. To spur.
  15. n. An evil spirit.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive, intransitive To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
  2. v. transitive To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
  3. v. transitive To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
  4. n. An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
  5. n. A kick; a blow with the foot.
  6. n. obsolete Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
  7. n. A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.
  2. v. To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.
  3. v. To kick or toss up the heels.
  4. v. To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.
  5. n. rare A kick; a blow with the foot.
  6. n. Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
  7. n. (Mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. reject with contempt

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English spurnen, spornen, from Old English spurnan ("to strike against, kick, spurn, reject; stumble"), from Proto-Germanic *spurnanan (“to tread, kick, knock out”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper-, *sperw- (“to twitch, push, fidget, be quick”). Cognate with Scots spurn ("to strike, push, kick"), German anspornen ("to spur on"), Icelandic sporna, spyrna ("to kick"), Latin spernō ("despise, distain, scorn"). Related to spur. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English spurnen, from Old English spurnan; see sperə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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