snappish
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈsnæpɪʃ/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -æpɪʃ
- Hyphenation: snap‧pish
Adjective
[edit]snappish (comparative more snappish, superlative most snappish)
- Likely to snap or bite.
- A snappish cur
- [1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 102:
- She came to us snappish and suspicious, but when she found what sort of place ours was, it all went off by degrees; […]
- Exhibiting irritation or impatience; curt; irascible.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 222:
- The past fortnight had been one of sullenness, cold black looks, short snappish words, and those ingenious contradictions which sometimes vary the halcyon calm of domestic felicity.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]likely to snap or bite
exhibiting irritation
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