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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, tone → schnippisch, kurz angebunden; to be in a snippy mood → kurz angebunden sein
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