snippy
Americanadjective
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sharp or curt, especially in a supercilious or haughty way; impertinent.
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scrappy or fragmentary.
adjective
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scrappy; fragmentary
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informal fault-finding
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dialect mean; stingy
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Etymology
Origin of snippy
Example Sentences
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Go back to your goose, Snippy; you never were made for this work.
From Doctor Thorne by Trollope, Anthony
Just love, love to mother, and love to father, and Snippy and Peg, an' good-bye to 'em all, an' how he was glad to die for England.
From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth
He was not accorded this privilege, but was sent out with a boy nicknamed "Snippy".
From The Trail of the Tramp by Livingston, Leon Ray
Plainly Snippy Brown was fairly crying to be raided.
From Sunny Slopes by Hueston, Ethel
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