snippety
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[edit]snippety (comparative more snippety, superlative most snippety)
- Made up of short snippets.
- Irritable (particularly in a condescending way), snippy.
- 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 24, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings[1], New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 164:
- “He tole that little snippity nurse of his’n to give me ten dollars and make me sign a ‘paid in full’ receipt […] ”