Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To check; reprove abruptly; reprimand.
- To nip; bite; pinch.
- n. A reprimand; a rebuke; a check; a snub.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive, dialectal To check; reprove abruptly; reprimand; rebuke; chide.
- v. transitive, dialectal To nip; bite; pinch; blast; blight.
- v. transitive, dialectal To thwart; offend.
- v. colloquial To put someone's nose out of joint; offend.
- n. obsolete A reprimand; a rebuke.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To check; to reprimand; to rebuke; to chide.
- v. obsolete To nip; to blast; to blight.
- n. obsolete A reprimand; a rebuke.
Etymologies
- From Middle English snaipen ("to nip, injure, afflict, rebuke, revile, criticize"), from Old Norse snepya ("to outrage, dishonor, disgrace"), from Proto-Germanic *snupanan, *snubanan (“to snap, cut”), of unknown origin. See also snap. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Soon afterwards she came flying to him in the utmost delight to repeat what she called a "lovely sneap" which Lady”
“She spoke to him of his luckless courtship of Widow Denison (a most unpleasant topic), thus giving a clue to the whole situation, in showing that Madam Winthrop resented his desertion of her in his first widowerhood, and like Falstaff, would not "undergo a sneap without reply.”
“My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without reply.”
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Comprised of obsolete(ish) words that sound really, really made up, often because they're just words that already exist with one letter changed as though coined by an easily amused pothead, y know?...
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