sneap

Meanings

1. To bite, nip, or pinch (someone or something).
2. To check or abruptly reprove (someone); to chide, to rebuke, to reprimand.
3. To offend (someone); to put (someone's) nose out of joint.

1. A rebuke; a reprimand.

Etymology

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.