Snapeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Origin obscure. Perhaps from snape, a dialectal variant of sneap (“to nip, bite, pinch”). More at sneap.

動詞

snape (三人称単数 現在形 snapes, 現在分詞 snaping, 過去形および過去分詞形 snaped)

1. (nautical, shipbuilding) To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.
   • 2000, William L. Crothers, The American-built Clipper Ship, 1850-1856, International Marine, page 265:

     It had to be accurately cut and trimmed, and its upper edge scored to suit the snaping of every beam end.

語源 2

From Middle English snaipen (“to injure; of sleet または snow: to nip; to criticize, rebuke, revile”) [and other forms],^[1] from Old Norse sneypa (“to disgrace, dishonour; to outrage”),^[2] from Proto-Germanic *snupaną, *snubaną (“to cut; to snap”); further origin unknown. Doublet of sneap.

動詞

snape (三人称単数 現在形 snapes, 現在分詞 snaping, 過去形および過去分詞形 snaped) (archaic or Britain, dialectal)

1. (transitive)
   1. To check or curtail (the growth of something); also, to check or curtail the growth of (a plant, etc.).
   2. Synonym of sneap (“to check or abruptly reprove (someone); to chide, to rebuke, to reprimand”)
      • 1861, Terry A. Johnston, Him on One Side and Me on the Other, Univ. of South Carolina Press, p48, 1999 (quoting Alexander Campbell)

        The colnel (sic) I dont think like him much. I undirstand (sic) he was always snaping him.

2. (intransitive) To chide, to rebuke, to reprimand.
   • 1871, John Esten Cooke, Out of the Foam:

     He saw nothing, heard nothing, rushed on, he knew not whither, snaping, and uttering hoarse cries.

   • 2001, Joan Raphael-Leff, Pregnancy: The Inside Story, Karnac Books, page 22

     I imagine her prodding my flab and snaping, "There's nothing there — get rid of that!"

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