Latterly Sc. Also 5 snybb, 7 snibbe. [f. SNIB v.1 Cf. Da. snibbe, Sw. snybba, in the same sense.] A check, sharp rebuke, or snub.

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c. 1440.  Alph. Tales, 392. When Hillarion … was giffen alonelie vnto his prayers, he sufferd many snybbis of þe fend.

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1587.  Churchyard, Worth. Wales (1876), 61. No sorer snib, nor nothing nips so neere, As feele much want, yet shewe a merrie cheere.

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a. 1601.  Pasquil & Kath. (1878), I. 267. Then may one … Rule all, pay all, take all, without checke or snib.

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1681.  W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen. (1693), 1067. Tart reproofs; Biting and taunting snibs.

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c. 1740.  Skinner, Poems (1809), 128. I thought he might hae gott’n a snib.

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1768.  Ross, Helenore, 13. Sick snibs as that, may sair to let us see, ’Tis better for us to be loose an’ free.

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