sneap

See also: snèap

English

From Middle English snaipen (“to nip, injure, afflict, rebuke, revile, criticize”), from Old Norse sneypa (“to outrage, dishonor, disgrace”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *snupaną, *snubaną (“to snap, cut”), of unknown origin. See also snap.

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sneap (third-person singular simple present sneaps, present participle sneaping, simple past and past participle sneaped)

(transitive, dialectal) To check; reprove abruptly; reprimand; rebuke; chide.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Hall to this entry?)
(transitive, dialectal) To nip; bite; pinch; blast; blight.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?) - King Ferdinand of Navarre; Berowne is like an envious sneaping frost, That bites the first born infants of the spring. - Line 100 from Love's Labour's Lost
(transitive, dialectal) To thwart; offend.
(colloquial) To put someone's nose out of joint; offend.
She was sneaped when she wasn't invited to his party.

sneap (plural sneaps)

(obsolete) A reprimand; a rebuke.
- Shakespeare
  My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without reply.