a. Obs. [Of obscure origin.] Snub.
13[?]. K. Alis., 6447 (Laud MS.). Hij haue visages euelong, And snatted nosen, þat ben wrong.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), III. 285. Ȝe stryveþ for a man wiþ snatted nose. Ibid. (1398), Barth. De P. R., XVIII. xcvi. (1495), 842. The ape hight Simea in grewe and hath that name of snattid nose:… for thei ben snattyd in the nose.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 461/2. Snattyd, or schort nosyd, simus.
