v. Now dial. Also 5–7 snebbe. [var. of SNIB v.1] trans. To reprimand, reprove or check; to snub. Also absol.
In Chaucer Prol. 525 (see SNIB v.1 1) two or three manuscripts have snebbe.
c. 1440. Capgrave, Life St. Kath., III. 261 (MS. Arundel). Therfore youre grace wyth pytous voys I pray To punyshe and snebbe youre-self as ye lest.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., Feb., 126. Which made this foolish Brere wexe so bold, That … he cast him to scold, And snebbe the good Oake, for he was old.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, xxxiii. 22 (Grosart), II. 98. Thou heardst euen now a yong man sneb me sore.
1606. S. Gardiner, Bk. Angling, 157. So was Dauid by Nathan … snebbed in this sort for his euill example.
1617. Collins, Def. Bp. Ely, II. x. 515. The Nurse her selfe may waken the child…; chide it and sneb it, as well as giue it the dugge.
1846. W. Drummond, Muckomachy, 18.
| The man, thus snebbit, | |
| Lost, too, his tebbit. |
1867–. in dial. use (Lancs., Yks.).
