snurp,v. [app. the same as the mod.dial.snurp (more commonly snirp, snerp), of Scand. origin: cf.Norw.dial.snurpa, snyrpa to draw together in wrinkles.] intr. To become shrivelled or wrinkled. c1300Old Age vii. in E.E.P. (1862) 149, I snurpe, i snobbe, i sneipe on snovte.