snipy
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]snipy (comparative snipier, superlative snipiest)
- Alternative form of snipey
- Full of or attractive to snipe.
- 1858, The New sporting magazine - Volume 35, page 85:
- The wind was blowing almost a storm as we arrived at our first ground -- a good-sized lake, with broad moory flats, sprinkled with bulrushes and sedgy grass stretching down to the water's edge, and looking uncommonly snipy.
- 1897, John Tyndall, Pioneer Planter, Voyager and Explorer, page 20:
- To all this I agreed, and having borrowed a gun from one of my Rifle Officer friends, and a good stock of ammunition, I joined my two new friends at funfire in the morning, and after driving about 6 miles, I saw some very snipy-looking fields, got down, my companions promising to call for me about 11 o'clock on their way back.
- 1936, Geoffrey Alton, Craig Herklots, The Hong Kong Naturalist - Volumes 7-8, page 8:
- Some however, say it is the result of a capricious disposition which induces them to leave "snipy places" for other spots, but though possible, I am, after many years careful observation, inclined to disagree.
- Long, narrow, and pointed.
- 1993, Pure-bred Dogs, American Kennel Gazette - Volume 110, page 146:
- The muzzle is strong and squared off, never snipy.
- Prone to sniping.
- 2001, Kathryn Hughes, George Eliot: The Last Victorian, →ISBN, page 330:
- On 16 December 1878 Marian went to court to prove the will, an ordeal which even the usually snipy George Simpson though she should have been spared.
- Full of or attractive to snipe.