sneap

verb

1. (British, archaic, dialectal, transitive)To bite, nip, or pinch (someone or something).
2. (British, also, archaic, dialectal, figuratively, transitive)To check or abruptly reprove (someone); to chide, to rebuke, to reprimand.

   “Nay, I am gone. I'm a man quickly sneaped.”

   “That vvee doe enough hate our corruptions, vvhen (at our ſharpeſt) vve doe but gently ſneape them, […]”

   “But life that's here, / VVhen into it the ſoul doth cloſely vvind, / Is often ſneep'd by anguiſh and by fear, / VVith vexing pain and range that ſhe no'te eaſly bear.”

   “John, the correct one, who could make you feel sneaped. John never felt sneaped. If you were a dog, being sneaped would be the same as going off with your tail between your legs. If you were Topaz, people tried to sneap you, but you were hard to sneap. Even the proud gentle Annie, the eldest, could be sneaped by a look, but never John.”

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

   “Some days after he, in a civil manner, sent a captain with them and other soldiers to Owthorpe, to inquire into their misdemeanours before their faces; which being confirmed to him, and he beginning to rebuke them, they set him at light, even before Mrs. Hutchinson's face, and made the poor man retire sneaped to his colonel;”

   “And moreover she was convinced that her mother, secretly very flattered and delighted by the visit, was adopting a derisive attitude in order to 'show off' before her daughter. Parents are thus ingenuous! But she was so shocked and sneaped that she found it more convenient to say nothing.”

   “As I have often had causee to remark before, my hon. Friend, though appearing to be a hard-boiled member of the Committee is in fact very tender, and, as we say in north Staffordshire, easily sneaped or upset. He has been sneaped by the Government Whip's elevation.”

noun

1. (British, archaic, dialectal, obsolete, transitive)A rebuke; a reprimand.

   “My Lord I will not vndergoe this ſnepe vvithout reply, […]”