snape
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /sneɪp/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪp
Etymology 1
[edit]Origin obscure. Perhaps from snape, a dialectal variant of sneap (“to nip, bite, pinch”). More at sneap.
Verb
[edit]snape (third-person singular simple present snapes, present participle snaping, simple past and past participle snaped)
- (nautical, shipbuilding) To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.
- 2000, William L. Crothers, The American-built Clipper Ship, 1850-1856, International Marine, page 265:
- It had to be accurately cut and trimmed, and its upper edge scored to suit the snaping of every beam end.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English snaipen (“to injure; of sleet or snow: to nip; to criticize, rebuke, revile”) [and other forms],[1] from Old Norse sneypa (“to disgrace, dishonour; to outrage”),[2] from Proto-Germanic *snupaną, *snubaną (“to cut; to snap”); further origin unknown. Doublet of sneap.
Verb
[edit]snape (third-person singular simple present snapes, present participle snaping, simple past and past participle snaped) (archaic or British, dialectal)
- (transitive)
- To check or curtail (the growth of something); also, to check or curtail the growth of (a plant, etc.).
- Synonym of sneap (“to check or abruptly reprove (someone); to chide, to rebuke, to reprimand”)
- 1861, Terry A. Johnston, Him on One Side and Me on the Other, Univ. of South Carolina Press, p48, 1999 (quoting Alexander Campbell)
- The colnel (sic) I dont think like him much. I undirstand (sic) he was always snaping him.
- 1861, Terry A. Johnston, Him on One Side and Me on the Other, Univ. of South Carolina Press, p48, 1999 (quoting Alexander Campbell)
- (intransitive) To chide, to rebuke, to reprimand.
- 1871, John Esten Cooke, Out of the Foam:
- He saw nothing, heard nothing, rushed on, he knew not whither, snaping, and uttering hoarse cries.
- 2001, Joan Raphael-Leff, Pregnancy: The Inside Story, Karnac Books, page 22:
- I imagine her prodding my flab and snaping, "There's nothing there — get rid of that!"
References
[edit]- ^ “snaipen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “snape, v.2”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2021.
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse sneypa (“to outrage, dishonor, disgrace”).
Verb
[edit]snape (third-person singular simple present snapeth, present participle snapende, snapynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle snaped)
- To injure; of snow or sleet: nip, afflict
- Þe snawe snitered ful snart, þat snayped þe wylde. — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, c1400
- Ilke a barne in þe burgh all blaught is hys wedes Als any snappand snaw. — Wars of Alexander, 1500
- To rebuke; revile, criticize
- Vte of desert þar he was in, He com to snaip þe king sinn. — Cursor Mundi, 1400
- To Snape: corripere — Catholicon Anglicum, 1483
Related terms
[edit]- snapli (“sharply, bitingly; reproachfully”)
References
[edit]Middle English Dictionary, snaipen, snaip, snape
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