snebv.
Now dialect.
transitive. To reprimand, reprove, or check; to snub. Also absol.In Chaucer Prol. 525 (see snib v.1 1) two or three manuscripts have snebbe.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)]
threac897
threapc897
begripea1000
threata1000
castea1200
chaste?c1225
takec1275
blame1297
chastya1300
sniba1300
withnima1315
undernima1325
rebukec1330
snuba1340
withtakea1340
reprovec1350
chastisea1375
arate1377
challenge1377
undertake1377
reprehenda1382
repreync1390
runta1398
snapea1400
underfoc1400
to call to account1434
to put downc1440
snebc1440
uptakec1440
correptc1449
reformc1450
reprise?c1450
to tell (a person) his (also her, etc.) own1450
control1451
redarguec1475
berisp1481
to hit (cross) one over (of, on) the thumbs1522
checkc1530
admonish1541
nip1548
twig?1550
impreve1552
lesson1555
to take down1562
to haul (a person) over the coals1565
increpate1570
touch1570
school1573
to gather up1577
task1580
redarguate?1590
expostulate1592
tutor1599
sauce1601
snip1601
sneap1611
to take in tax1635
to sharp up1647
round1653
threapen1671
reprimand1681
to take to task1682
document1690
chapter1693
repulse1746
twink1747
to speak to ——1753
haul1795
to pull up1799
carpet1840
rig1841
to talk to1860
to take (a person) to the woodshed1882
rawhide1895
to tell off1897
to tell (someone) where he or she gets off1900
to get on ——1904
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
strafe1915
tick1915
woodshed1935
to slap (a person) down1938
sort1941
bind1942
bottle1946
mat1948
ream1950
zap1961
elder1967
c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine iii. 261 (Arun.) Therfore youre grace wyth pytous voys I pray To punyshe and snebbe youre-self as ye lest.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes 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.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) ii. sig. V3v Thou heardst euen now a yong man snebb me sore.
1606 S. Gardiner Bk. Angling 157 So was Dauid by Nathan..snebbed in this sort for his euill example.
1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. x. 515 The Nurse her selfe may waken the child..; chide it and sneb it, as well as giue it the dugge.
1846 Drummond's Muckomachy i. xliv. 18 The man, thus snebbit, Lost, too, his tebbit.
1867– in dialect use (Lancashire, Yorkshire).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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