Now arch. [f. SNEAP v.] A snub or check; a rebuke, reproof.
1597. Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., II. i. 135. My Lord, I will not vndergo this sneape without reply.
1876. Weiss, Wit, Hum. & Shakes., iv. 149. A charter from Providence to give Falstaff his first sneap of retribution.
1887. Blackw. Mag., Sept., 365/1. He might have spared us this sneap, seeing that his own queen had been enamoured of an ass.
