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[syn: snappish, snappy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Snappish \Snap"pish\, a.
1. Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a
snapping cur.
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2. Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily
provoked; tart; peevish.
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The taunting address of a snappish misanthrope.
--Jeffrey.
[1913 Webster] -- Snap"pish*ly, adv. --
Snap"pish*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
snappish
adj 1: apt to speak irritably; "a snappish tone of voice" [syn:
snappish, snappy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "snappish":
abrupt, acerbic, acid, bearish, bitchy, brusque, cankered,
cantankerous, choleric, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross,
cross-grained, crusty, curt, cussed, disagreeable, dyspeptic,
excitable, feisty, fractious, fretful, grouchy, gruff,
hot-tempered, huffish, huffy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, irascible,
irritable, mean, moody, morose, ornery, peevish, perverse, pettish,
petulant, prickly, querulous, quick-tempered, sharp, short,
short-tempered, snappy, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, surly, tart,
temperamental, testy, touchy, ugly, ungracious, waspish