Definition of Snebbe

1. to rebuke [v SNEBBED, SNEBBING, SNEBBES] - See also: rebuke

Lexicographical Neighbors of Snebbe

sneaking suspicion
sneakingly
sneakingness
sneakish
sneaks
sneaksbies
sneaksby
sneaky
sneap
sneaped
sneaping
sneaps
sneath
sneaths
sneb
snebbe (current term)
snebbed
snebbes
snebbing
snebs
sneck
sneck-bend
sneck-bends
sneck lifter
sneck lifters
sneck posset
sneckdraw
sneckdraws
snecked
snecket

Literary usage of Snebbe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"22; snebbe, Spenser, Shep. Kal., Feb., 126. In prov. use in Lancashire (EDD.). In Chaucer, CTA 525, some MSS. have snebbe. ..."

2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"This substantive has not been met with elsewhere. To snebbe. The same as to sneap, or tmib. That on a time he cast him for to scold, ..."

3. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"Dimin. of O. Du. snabbe, snebbe, bill, beak. lit. ' snapper ; ' put for snappe * ... O. Du. snebbe, beak, lit. snapper, ^f See also Snub. Snare, a noose. ..."

4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Cf. O. Du. snabbe, snebbe, ' the bill of a bird,' Hexham, which is the same word, .... The older form is sneb or snib ; spelt snebbe, Spenser, Shep. Kal. ..."

5. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"Enc. Perhaps from S. Snib, to fasten, or Tent, snebbe a beak, and bit, ghe-bii ; because it acts as a check or bit to the animal that wears it. ..."

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