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.
c. 1300. Old Age, vii. in E. E. P. (1862), 149. I snurpe, i snobbe, i sneipe on snovte.
