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snippy

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snip·py  (snp)
adj. snip·pi·er, snip·pi·est Informal
1. Sharp-tongued; impertinent: shocked by his snippy retort.
2. Occurring in pieces; fragmentary.

snippy [ˈsnɪpɪ]
adj -pier, -piest
1. scrappy; fragmentary
2. Informal fault-finding
3. Dialect mean; stingy
snippily  adv
snippiness  n
Translations
snippy
adj (US inf) person, toneschnippisch, kurz angebunden; to be in a snippy moodkurz angebunden sein


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"Yes, or when you're put in a snippy little room 'way at the top of the house with nothin' in it," growled Nancy.
I wonder if you'd he so superior and snippy if you had to live on six dollars a week.
He was rather snippy about my leaving a book in the hall.
 
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