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snippy

[ snip-ee ]

adjective

, snip·pi·er, snip·pi·est.
  1. sharp or curt, especially in a supercilious or haughty way; impertinent.
  2. scrappy or fragmentary.


snippy

/ ˈsnɪpɪ /

adjective

  1. scrappy; fragmentary
  2. informal.
    fault-finding
  3. dialect.
    mean; stingy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈsnippily, adverb
  • ˈsnippiness, noun
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Other Words From

  • snippi·ly adverb
  • snippi·ness snippet·i·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of snippy1

First recorded in 1720–30; snip + -y 1
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Example Sentences

Every time I asked about their arrangements so I could request vacation time, she got snippy with me, so I let it go.

If you didn’t know better, you might think Greene was a character played by Mink Stole, the Waters lifer who specializes in snippy villains.

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You will save yourself a lot of mental anguish by not getting snippy with store personnel.

Saving Mr. Banks is more than a movie about a snippy curmudgeon who excels at amusing put downs.

Look at the snippy press release HP put out in reaction to the deal for its rival.

Starr remembered getting snippy with Ortega one time when she left the clothes in the laundry too long.

It was a snippy sort of a look, Betty thought, that this girl directed toward her.

The thing that I resent most is the mean remarks those snippy girls make about her.

Surely that snippy little note, in which you call me—me, a perfect stranger—names!

"Yes, or when you're put in a snippy little room 'way at the top of the house with nothin' in it," growled Nancy.

Putty Doane was taken prisoner by the Germans atOh, see that gang of up-townersarent they snippy and patronizing and silly?

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