Meaning

3 senses

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive)To bite, nip, or pinch (someone or something).

  2. (UK, also, archaic, dialectal, figuratively, transitive)To check or abruptly reprove (someone); to chide, to rebuke, to reprimand.

  3. (UK, archaic, dialectal, informal, transitive)To offend (someone); to put (someone's) nose out of joint.

Origin

The verb is a variant of snape, from Middle English snaipen (“to injure; of sleet or snow:

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.

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Forms

sneaps, sneaping, sneaped, sneaped
Base formsneap · to sneap
3rd person singularsneaps
Present participlesneaping
Past simplesneaped
Past participlesneaped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysneap
he, she, itsneaps

Past simpleLesson

all personssneaped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave sneaped
he, she, ithas sneaped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill sneap

Synonyms

1 synonyms
snape

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sneakB2sneakersneakysneerB2sneezeB2
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