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▪ I. gnap, n. Sc.|næp|
[f. the vb.]
A bite, morsel.
1768Ross Helenore (1789) 69, I was sent to them with their small disjune:..And whan I saw their piece was but a gnap, Thought with mysell of mending their mishap. 1866Gregor Banffsh. Gloss., Gnap, a morsel of anything eatable. 1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb (1873) 15 ‘That's to lat 'imsel' get a gnap too!’
▪ II. gnap, v. Obs. exc. Sc.
See also knap v.2
[Onomatopœic; cf. gnip, snap, etc.]
To bite in a snapping fashion. Usually intr. or absol.
The sense in quot. 1501 is doubtful: it may be ‘chirped’.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 10208 Sum gnappede here fete and handes As dogges doun þat gnawe here bandes. 1501Douglas Pal. Hon. Prol. 44 The greshoppers amangis the vergers gnappit. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. (1534) G 6, As manye horses as do playe with him, that is sore, and gnappe of the matter that renneth out of the sore, shall haue the same sorance within a moneth after. 1587Fraunce C'tess Pembroke's Ivychurch ii. ii, Noebody giues them [Goates] Thyme and other flowrs to be gnapping. 16..Melvill MS. 55 (Jam.) In the nethermost [window] the Earle of Morton was standing gnapping on his staffe end. 1810J. Cock Simple Strains 119 (Jam.) She..disna spare her cheese an cakes To had our teeth a gnappin, Fu' crump, that night.
b. fig. to gnap at, to snap at, find fault with; also, to clip (words) in speaking.
1533Elyot Knowledge Pref., [They] be alwaye gnappynge and kyckynge at suche examples. 1789Shirrefs Poems (1790) 293 Keep me frae your travel'd birds, Wha..only ken to gnap at words. 1866Gregor Banffsh. Gloss., Gnap at, to taunt and find fault with; as, ‘He's a nyatterin' bodie: he's eye gnappin' at something’. |