Middle English Dictionary Entry
snobbing(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | snobbing(e ger. Also snubbinge. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Sobbing; sighinge and ~.
Associated quotations
- c1400 WBible(2) (Lamb 25)Lam.3.56 : Snobbyng [L singultu; Roy: turne thou not awei thin eere fro my sobbyng and cries].
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)60b/b : Singultus: snubbynge [Cnt: snobbyng; Hrl 1738: sobbyng].
- a1450 Aelred Inst.(2) (Bod 423)10/392 : Whan thow sittist at thy mete, than shuldest thou chewe vpon chastite and clennes, desirynge that Iesu Crist thy spouse shuld make it parfyt in the, with syghinge & snobbynge, wepynge and wailynge.
- a1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)1865 : He, wt sore sykyng & snobbyng bothe, Vnswered þe monke..'Þis holy mayden Ede..Shalle hastely ben take a-way from vs.'
- c1465 Chaucer CT.ML.(Bod 414)B.1065 : Snobbing [Heng: Long was the sobbyng and the bitter peyne].
- a1500 Thys mayden (Ashm 189)11 : Dere sone, ly styll & slepe; What cause hast þu so sore to wepe, Wyth syȝhyng, wyth snobbynge, wyth crying, & wyth scrycchynge.