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Snappish adj.

Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.

Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish. "The taunting address of a snappish misanthrope."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Snappish" Quotes from Famous Books

... flitted across her lips as she broke away from him and threw herself into the arms of tall, excited Uncle Caspar. The conductor, several trainmen and a few eager passengers came up, the former crusty and snappish. ...

— Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... stripe, given as a reward and an incentive, would be to me a talisman. I decided that I'd keep it in a place where I could rush to look at it whenever I needed encouragement to go on being a soldier. If I wanted to sneak myself out of trouble with a fib, or be snappish to Father or cattish to Di, or say "damn," or bang a door in a rage, it seemed to me that I should only have to think of that little triangle of black cloth and gilt braid to be suddenly as good as gold, all the way through to ...

— Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... Marian's dusky little head was that she must never speak unless she was first spoken to; and if, in the exuberance of child-nature, she transgressed this rule, especially at meal-times, Aunt Jemima's mouth would open like a pair of nut-crackers, and she would give utterance to a succession of such snappish chidings, that Marian would almost be afraid she was going to be swallowed up. A hundred times a day the child incurred the righteous ire of this cast-iron aunt. From morning to night the little thing was worried almost out of her life by the grim governess of her father's ...

— The Golden Shoemaker - or 'Cobbler' Horn • J. W. Keyworth

... rail from Breslau to Oppeln and found himself alone with a lady in a second-class compartment. He vainly endeavoured to enter into conversation with the other occupant of the carriage; her answers were invariably curt and snappish. Baffled in his attempts, he proceeded to light a cigar to while away the time. Then the lady said to him: "I suppose you have never travelled second-class before, else you would know better manners." Her travelling companion quietly rejoined: "It is true, I have hitherto only studied ...

— Railway Adventures and Anecdotes - extending over more than fifty years • Various

... timidity reigned supreme. Though the Czar uttered some snappish words at the threatening increase to the Duchy of Warsaw, he still posed as Napoleon's ally. The Swedes, weary of their hopeless strifes with France, Russia, and Denmark, deposed the still bellicose Gustavus IV.; and his successor, ...

— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose

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