sneap
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sneap
- /sniːp/ UK
- /snip/ US
Rhymes with -iːp
Where it comes from
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.
verb sneaps · sneaping · sneaped · sneep · snipe
- To bite, nip, or pinch (someone or something).
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To check or abruptly reprove (someone); to chide, to rebuke, to reprimand.
Nay, I am gone. I'm a man quickly sneaped.
Similar: snape
- To offend (someone); to put (someone's) nose out of joint. 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 reti
noun sneaps
- A rebuke; a reprimand. My Lord I will not vndergoe this ſnepe vvithout reply, […]
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