sneap

• sneep (obsolete), snape (dialectal), snipe

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

• IPA^(key): /sniːp/
• Rhymes: -iːp

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

1. (transitive, dialectal) To check; reprove abruptly; reprimand; rebuke; chide.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Hall to this entry?)

2. (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

3. (transitive, dialectal) To thwart; offend.
4. (colloquial) To put someone's nose out of joint; offend.

   She was sneaped when she wasn't invited to his party.

sneap (plural sneaps)

1. (obsolete) A reprimand; a rebuke.
   • Shakespeare

     My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without reply.

• Aspen, NAPEs, Snape, aspen, napes, neaps, panes, peans, snape, spane, spean