Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To bite, nip, or pinch (someone or something). · To check or abruptly reprove (someone); to chide, to rebuke, to reprimand. · To offend (someone); to put (someone's) nose out of joint.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA rebuke; a reprimand.
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.
Relationships mentioned by the source
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- Doublet mentionsnapeen
- Inherited-form mentionsnaipenenm · to injure; of sleet or snow: to nip; to criticize, rebuke, revile
- Derivation mentionsneypanon · to disgrace, dishonour; to outrage
- Derivation mention*snaupijanągem-pro
- Derivation mention*snūpanągem-pro
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