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Sneap

//sniːp// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A rebuke; a reprimand. British, archaic, dialectal, obsolete, transitive

    "My Lord I will not vndergoe this ſnepe vvithout reply, […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To bite, nip, or pinch (someone or something). British, archaic, dialectal, transitive
  2. 2
    To check or abruptly reprove (someone); to chide, to rebuke, to reprimand. British, also, archaic, dialectal, figuratively, transitive

    "Nay, I am gone. I'm a man quickly sneaped."

  3. 3
    To offend (someone); to put (someone's) nose out of joint. British, archaic, dialectal, informal, transitive

    "Some days after he, in a civil manner, sent a captain with them and other soldiers to Owthorpe, to inquire into their misdemeanours before their faces; which being confirmed to him, and he beginning to rebuke them, they set him at light, even before Mrs. Hutchinson's face, and made the poor man retire sneaped to his colonel;"

Etymology

Etymology 1

The verb is a variant of snape, from Middle English snaipen (“to injure; of sleet or snow: to nip; to criticize, rebuke, revile”) [and other forms], from Old Norse sneypa (“to disgrace, dishonour; to outrage”), from Proto-Germanic *snaupijaną, from Proto-Germanic *snūpaną, *snūbaną (“to cut, snap”); further origin unknown. The noun is derived from the verb.

Etymology 2

The verb is a variant of snape, from Middle English snaipen (“to injure; of sleet or snow: to nip; to criticize, rebuke, revile”) [and other forms], from Old Norse sneypa (“to disgrace, dishonour; to outrage”), from Proto-Germanic *snaupijaną, from Proto-Germanic *snūpaną, *snūbaną (“to cut, snap”); further origin unknown. The noun is derived from the verb.

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