Snappish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  snappish
       adj : tending to speak irritably; "a snappish tone of voice" [syn:
              {snappy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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