Now dial. Also 3–5 snobbe. [Imitative.] intr. To sob. Hence Snobbing vbl. sb.
c. 1300. Old Age, vii. in E. E. P. (1862), 149. I snurpe, i snobbe, i sneipe on snovte.
a. 1380. St. Ambrose, 940, in Horstm., Altengl. Leg. (1878), 23. He wept and snobbed and ofte abreid.
1388. Wyclif, Lam. iii. 56. Turne thou not awei thin eere fro my sobbyng [v.r. snobbyng] and cries.
c. 1420. Chron. Vilod., 1865. He with sore sykyng & snobbyng bothe Vnswered þe monke. Ibid., 1986. Þus ladyes alle … snobbedone & sykedone fulle sore.
1608. Middleton, Mad World, III. ii. She cannot hear me for snobbing.
1667. R. L’Estrange, Vis. Quev., 152. There was such Blowing, Snobbing, Sniveling, and throwing Snot about, that there was no enduring the House.
18[?]. in Eng. Dial. Dict., s.v., She neither sighed, nor snobbed, nor spoke, nor nothing.
1884–. in dial. glossaries (Worc., Glouc.).
