• IPA: /sniːp/

sneap (sneaps, present participle sneaping; past and past participle sneaped)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To check; reprove abruptly; reprimand; rebuke; chide.
2. (transitive, dialectal) To nip; bite; pinch; blast; blight.
   • c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i]:

     King Ferdinand of Navarre; Berowne is like an envious sneaping frost, That bites the first born infants of the spring.

3. (transitive, dialectal) To thwart; offend.
4. (colloquial) To put someone's nose out of joint; offend.

   She was sneaped when she wasn't invited to his party.

sneap (plural sneaps)

1. (obsolete) A reprimand; a rebuke.
   • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene i]:

     My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without reply.