snape
To chide, to rebuke, to reprimand.
archaic, intransitive
He saw nothing, heard nothing, rushed on, he knew not whither, snaping, and uttering hoarse cries.
Where it comes from
From Middle English snaipen (“to injure; of sleet or snow: to nip; to criticize, rebuke, revile”) [and other forms], from Old Norse sneypa (“to disgrace, dishonour; to outrage”), from Proto-Germanic *snupaną, *snubaną (“to cut; to snap”); further origin unknown. Doublet of sneap.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry snape (CC BY-SA 4.0).