verbTo check or curtail (the growth of something); also, to check or curtail the growth of (a plant, etc.). · Synonym of sneap (“to check or abruptly reprove (someone); to chide, to rebuke, to reprimand”). · To chide, to rebuke, to reprimand.
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryFrom 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 *snupaną, *snubaną (“to cut; to snap”); further origin unknown. Doublet of sneap.
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- Inherited-form mentionsnaipenenm · to injure; of sleet or snow: to nip; to criticize, rebuke, revile
- Derivation mentionsneypanon · to disgrace, dishonour; to outrage
- Derivation mention*snupanągem-pro
- Doublet mentionsneapen
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