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sneaped

sneaped is the simple past and past participle of sneap.

Meaning of sneap

Verb

sneap (third-person singular simple present sneaps, present participle sneaping, simple past and past participle sneaped)

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive) To bite, nip, or pinch (someone or something).
  2. (UK, 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.1611, Thomas Middleton, The Lady's Tragedy
    Synonyms:
    snape
  3. (UK, 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...1906, Lucy Hutchinson, Julius Hutchinson, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, page 315

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Questions about sneaped

What is sneaped the simple past and past participle of?
Sneaped is the simple past and past participle of sneap.

Words near sneaped in the dictionary

  1. sneaky Pete
  2. sneaky Petes
  3. sneaky suspicion
  4. sneaky-deaky
  5. sneap
  6. sneaped
  7. sneaping
  8. sneaps
  9. sneath
  10. sneaths
  11. sneaux

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