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snappish

[ snap-ish ]

adjective

  1. apt to snap or bite, as a dog.
  2. disposed to speak or reply in an impatient or irritable manner.
  3. impatiently or irritably sharp; curt:

    a snappish reply.



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Other 51Թ Forms

  • Բp· adverb
  • Բp·Ա noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of snappish1

First recorded in 1535–45; snap + -ish 1
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Full of snappy and snappish dialogue, the book imagines a carnival-esque week’s idyll in the “shantytown of millionaires” that was 1950s Malibu.

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Sometimes he was snappish, and sometimes just whiny, but always bristling.

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DeSantis is a historically bad candidate, snappish and known for eating pudding with his fingers.

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That means that when characters are being snappish, they lack the charm that should keep us rooting for them.

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Lulu has been traumatized by her experiences on the front lines and is skittish and snappish.

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