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Snappish adj.

Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.

Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish. "The taunting address of a snappish misanthrope."

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Etymology of 'Snappish'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Snappish" Quotes from Famous Books

... snappish little demon, and you spoil him so," said the other voice. This was attended by the sound of movement as if the party ...

— The Marriage of Elinor • Margaret Oliphant

... "He's very snappish, to be sure," Felix said, with a smile, trying once more to push forward one hand to stroke the bird cautiously. But Methuselah resented all such unauthorized intrusions. He was growing too old to put up with strangers. He made a second vicious ...

— The Great Taboo • Grant Allen

... not consumptive, baby—fast asleep; and even the recalcitrant "Matildy Jane" tolerably pleasant and good-natured beneath the fascinations of a handsome, sturdy urchin four years old, who, undaunted by her hard face and snappish voice, insisted upon following her around, and "helping" her in her manifold occupations. He was a boy who did not know how to be snubbed, and had fairly won his way with his ungracious aunt, by sheer persistence in his unwelcome attentions. ...

— Uncle Rutherford's Nieces - A Story for Girls • Joanna H. Mathews

... Cross and snappish as the girls were, they managed to spare Kitty, and to stand in front of her to conceal her idleness from the floor-walker, and give her a few minutes' occasional rest sitting down. She went through ...

— Making Both Ends Meet • Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt

... and rarely tells a story without imitating several different accents. His familiar tone, his declamatory tone, and his pathetic tone are quite different things. Sometimes Scotch predominates in his pronunciation; sometimes it is imperceptible. Sometimes his utterance is snappish and quick to the last degree; sometimes it is remarkable for rotundity and mellowness. I can easily conceive that two people who had seen him on different days might dispute about him as the travellers in the fable disputed ...

— Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay • George Otto Trevelyan

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