sneap
To bite, nip, or pinch (someone or something).
archaic, transitive
To check or abruptly reprove (someone); to chide, to rebuke, to reprimand.
archaic, figuratively, transitive
Nay, I am gone. I'm a man quickly sneaped.
To offend (someone); to put (someone's) nose out of joint.
archaic, informal, transitive
Some days after he, in a civil manner, sent a captain with them and other soldiers to Owthorpe, to inquire into their misdemeanours before their faces; which being confirmed to him, and he beginning to rebuke them, they set him at light, even before Mrs. Hutchinson's face, and made the poor man retire sneaped to his colonel;
Where it comes from
The verb is a variant of snape, 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 *snaupijaną, from Proto-Germanic *snūpaną, *snūbaną (“to cut, snap”); further origin unknown. The noun is derived from the verb.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry sneap (CC BY-SA 4.0).