Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A rebuke; a reprimand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, dialectal, obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To bite, nip, or pinch (someone or something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
To check or abruptly reprove (someone); to chide, to rebuke, to reprimand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, also, archaic, dialectal, figuratively, transitive
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Synonyms: snape
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To offend (someone); to put (someone's) nose out of joint.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, dialectal, informal, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
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. The noun is derived from the verb.
