snibn.1
Latterly Scottish.
A check, sharp rebuke, or snub.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > instance of
admonishingc1350
reproofc1400
fliting1435
rebuke?a1439
snibc1450
reprehensiona1500
redargution1514
remorda1529
piece of one's mind1536
check1541
snuba1556
rebuking1561
boba1566
sneap1600
snipping1601
reprimand1636
repriment1652
rubber1699
slap1736
twinkation1748
rap1777
throughgoing1817
dressing-down1823
downset1824
hazing1829
snubbing1841
downsetting1842
raking1852
calling1855
talking toc1875
rousting1900
strafe1915
strafing1915
raspberry1919
rousing1923
bottle1938
reaming1944
ticking-off1950
serve1967
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 392 When Hillarion..was giffen alonelie vnto his prayers, he sufferd many snybbis of þe fend.
1587 T. Churchyard Worthines of Wales sig. H1 No sorer snib, nor nothing nips so neere, As feele much want, yet shewe a merrie cheere.
1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. i. sig. B3 Then may one..Rule all, pay all, take all, without checke or snib.
1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 1067 Tart reproofs; Biting and taunting snibs.
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 13 Sick snibs as that, may sair to let us see, 'Tis better for us to be loose an' free.
1788 J. Skinner Christmass Bawing in Caledonian Mag. Sept. 502 I thought he might ha gotn a snib.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
† snibn.2
Cant. Obsolete.
A petty thief.The word reads ‘mibs’ in the Bodleian's copy of Dekker and Wilkins's text (4o G 8 Art.BS). Grosart had access to another copy for his edition of the text (1883), and transcribes an unclear original as ‘snibs’. The correct reading is uncertain.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > petty thief or pilferer > [noun]
mitcher?c1225
nimmera1325
pilferer1350
truffer1485
lurcher1528
picker1549
filcher1557
purloiner1557
prig1567
prigger1567
prigman1567
fingerer1575
piker1590
prag1592
nibbler1598
lurch-man1603
petty larcener1640
budge1673
catch-cloaka1679
prigster1682
sutler1699
marauder1764
snib1823
chicken thief1840
lurker1841
souvenir hunter1862
robberling1865
jackdaw1887
miker1890
frisker1892
bower-bird1926
jagoff1931
magpie1944
slockster-
1607 T. Dekker & G. Wilkins Iests to make you Merie sig. D3v Some horsestealers, some mibs, some foysts.]
1823 P. Egan Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (rev. ed.) Snib, a prig. Scotch cant.
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snibn.3
/snɪb/, U.S. /snɪb/, Scottish English /snɪb/ Chiefly Scottish.
A catch or fastening for a door, window, lock, or the like.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > lock > latch-lock > latch
latch1331
clicket1342
snecket1611
click1714
snick1775
snib1825
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) The snib is the small bolt placed under the latch, and fastening the door so that it cannot be opened from without.
1869 Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 4 467/2 Most doors have both a snib and a sneck.
1891 J. M. Barrie Little Minister II. xxii. 134 An unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
snibv.1
/snɪb/, U.S. /snɪb/, Scottish English /snɪb/ Now dialect and Scottish.
1. transitive. To reprove, reprimand, rebuke, check sharply or severely:absolute.c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine iii. 261 (MS. Rawl.) Therfor ȝour grace..I pray To punch & snybe, ȝourself as ȝe lest.
a. A person.Common in literary use down to c1675.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (intransitive)]
reprovec1330
sniba1400
reprehend?a1439
expostulate1574
to rap (a person) on the knuckles (also fingers)1584
give it1594
reprimand1681
to pin a person's ears back1861
yell1886
to jump down a person's throat1916
to chew (a person's) ass1946
to slap (a person) down1960
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18228 Hell hint þam þat gera[r]d grim! And selcut snarpli snibbed him.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 525 Hym wolde he snybben sharply for the nonys.
c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 2825 But to þe pore, is denyed al grace; He snybbyd is.
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 6 Desiryng of him þat he schuld snybbe þe maydenes þat þei schuld not be redy to telle swech tales.
1515 G. Douglas Let. in Poet. Wks. (1874) I. p. xxxviii He is..the instrument of mekyll harm, and I dreyd sall yit be of mayr and he be nocht snybbyt.
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande i. f. 3/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Here percase some snappish carper will..snuffingly snibbe me, for debacing the Irish language.
1608 T. Middleton Your Fiue Gallants sig. D3 You haue snibd the poore fellow too much, hee can scarce speake.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 139 Hence it was, that many Bishops..were checkt and snibt by this great favourite to their no small..discouragement.
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 169 Christian snibbeth his fellow for unadvised speaking. View more context for this quotation
1755 R. Forbes tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 17 Fa' wi' snell words him sair did snib.
1836 W. Carleton Fardorougha vi If Honor comes to be snibbin' an' makin' little o' me afore them.
1851 Lintie o' Moray 64 No termagant tongue..Dares rattle around us, or scold us, or snib.
1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. 240 In bitterness of a displeasure he will snib his disobedient son with vehement words.]
b. A thing, action, conduct, etc.In later quots. passing into sense 2.
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
a1300 Cursor Mundi 26233 Spous-brecking, and als hordom,..þe biscop agh þaa for to snib.
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 95 If any of slyke þingis ȝee ful seldum wald snyb, to scorne he is laghyd.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 133 [I] wald snibe the same [conduct] and schaw thame that law of god.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 361 She snibbit the hauiest offences of al men in that cuntrie.
1631 J. Done Polydoron 3 Satyricall Poetry, like a payre of snuffers snibbing filth in others, but retayning it in it selfe.
1648 T. Hill God's Preparations Ep. Ded. sig. Biijv Far bee it from mee to snib the movings of God's Spirit in the weakest..of his saints.
1720 R. Wodrow Life R. Bruce (1843) 93 Mr. Bruce wrote..that he was ready to snib the sinister interpretations the people were running to.
2.
a. To check by some repressive action.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restrain [verb (transitive)]
pindeOE
steerc950
hold971
forbidc1000
withstewc1175
withholdc1200
stewa1225
crempa1250
bistintc1300
i-stillc1315
withdraw1340
entemperc1380
rebukec1380
forfenda1382
refraina1382
refrainc1390
restraina1393
restayc1400
retainc1415
to hold abackc1440
overholda1450
reclaim?c1450
revokec1450
bedwynge1480
sniba1500
repressa1525
rein1531
inhibit1535
to keep back1535
cohibit1544
reprimec1550
lithe1552
to rein up1574
check1581
embridle1583
to rein in1593
retrench1594
refrenate1599
to hold back1600
snip1601
becheck1605
sneap1611
trasha1616
supersede1645
reprimand1689
snape1691
to clap a guy on1814
to pull up1861
to pull in1893
withstrain1904
a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 3387 As at the stok the bere Snybbith the hardy houndis that ar ken, So farith he.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid x. Prol. 15 Wyntyr to snyb the erth wyth frosty schouris.
a1607 T. Brightman Brightman Redivivus (1647) iv. 117 Though it [hope] moderate the desire.., yet it quenches not, nor snibs the earnestnesse thereof.
a1666 R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) iv. 63 All the corns were thrown down and fully dried, the growing thereon snibbed.
1674 S. Ward Serm. 30 Jan. 13 The seeds of Piety..may be trampled on and kept under, crop'd and snib'd by the bestial part.
b. Scottish. (See quot. 1808.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > make dark [verb (transitive)] > quench (light) > snuff (a candle)
snota1425
snitec1440
snaste1561
top1594
snuff1688
snib1808
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. To Snib a candle, to snuff it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
snibv.2
/snɪb/, U.S. /snɪb/, Scottish English /snɪb/ Originally Scottish.
1. transitive. To fasten (a door, etc.) by means of a snib or catch; to shut in in this way.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close (a door, window, etc.) > bolt, bar, or lock
sparc1175
pena1200
louka1225
bara1300
shutc1320
lockc1325
clicketc1390
keyc1390
pinc1390
sneckc1440
belocka1450
spare?c1450
latch1530
to lock up1549
slot1563
bolt1574
to lock to?1575
double-lock1594
stang1598
obserate1623
padlock1722
button1741
snib1808
chain1839
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. To Snib a door, to fasten it with a small bolt.
1861 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life 2nd Ser. 185 Quite a vulgar body, so much so as to ask any one leaving the room to ‘snib the door’.
1864 J. Brown Horæ Subs., Jeems Hurrying them to their appointed place, Jeems snibbed them slowly in.
1869 Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 4 467/2 When a door is snibbed it cannot be opened from the outside.
1889 A. Conan Doyle Sign of Four vi. 92 Your ally would..shut the window, snib it on the inside.
1934 R. A. Knox Still Dead xxii. 269 Trying to shut the door quietly, she left it not quite snibbed properly, so that it came a bit ajar.
1953 A. Upfield Murder must Wait i. 4 The Yale-type lock was snibbed.
1962 W. H. Murray Maelstrom v. 73 He snibbed all the ground-floor windows.
1967 I. Hamilton Man with Brown Paper Face ix. 132 I went softly to the main entrance and snibbed it from the inside and put the bolt across.
1971 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 21 Nov. 2/3 The windows were not only unbroken but snibbed shut.
2. To catch, secure.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > seizing > catching or capture > catch or capture [verb (transitive)]
i-lecchec1000
fang1016
hentOE
takeOE
alatchlOE
catchc1275
wina1300
to take ina1387
attain1393
geta1400
overhent?a1400
restay?a1400
seizea1400
tachec1400
arrest1481
carrya1500
collara1535
snap1568
overgo1581
surprise1592
nibble1608
incaptivate1611
nicka1640
cop1704
chop1726
nail1735
to give a person the foot1767
capture1796
hooka1800
sniba1801
net1803
nib1819
prehend1831
corral1860
rope1877
a1801 R. Gall Poems & Songs (1819) 134 The Dutchmen endeavoured to rin for't, But fand themselves snib'd in a girn.
1813 E. Picken Misc. Poems I. 59 I'se..reveal to you How..I [sc. a rat] maist was snibbit.
Derivatives
ˈsnibbing-bolt n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > bolt or bar
shuttle971
barc1175
esselc1275
slota1300
sperel13..
ginc1330
staple-bar1339
shotc1430
shuttingc1440
shutc1460
spar1596
counter-bar1611
shooter1632
drawbar1670
night bolt1775
drop-bolt1786
snibbing-bolt1844
stay-band1844
window bar1853
heck-stower1876
barrel bolt1909
latch bolt1909
panic bolt1911
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 218 Fine water-closet latch, with snibbing-bolt and 5-inch joints.
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