snurp, v.
[app. the same as the mod. dial. snurp (more commonly snirp, snerp), of Scand. origin: cf. Norw. dial. snurpa, snyrpa to draw together in wrinkles.]
intr. To become shrivelled or wrinkled.
| c 1300 Old Age vii. in E.E.P. (1862) 149, I snurpe, i snobbe, i sneipe on snovte. |