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Neap vs Sneap - What's the difference?

neap | sneap |

As nouns the difference between neap and sneap

is that neap is the tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals while sneap is a reprimand; a rebuke.

As verbs the difference between neap and sneap

is that neap is to trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides while sneap is to check; reprove abruptly; reprimand; rebuke; chide.

As an adjective neap

is designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is least difference between high tide and low tide.

neap

English

Etymology 1

Perhaps of Scandinavian origin: compare dialectal Norwegian .

Noun

(en noun)
  • The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is least difference between high tide and low tide.
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    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.
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    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Anagrams

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    sneap

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete), (l) (dialectal),

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dialectal) To check; reprove abruptly; reprimand; rebuke; chide.
    • (Bishop Hall)
  • (dialectal) To nip; bite; pinch; blast; blight.
    • (Shakespeare) - King Ferdinand of Navarre; Berowne is like an envious sneaping frost, That bites the first born infants of the spring. - Line 100 from Love's Labour's Lost
  • (dialectal) To thwart; offend.
  • (colloquial) To put someone's nose out of joint; offend.
    • She was sneaped when she wasn't invited to his party.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A reprimand; a rebuke.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without reply.

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