Snippy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Informal Sharp-tongued; impertinent: shocked by his snippy retort.
  • adj. Informal Occurring in pieces; fragmentary.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. irritable; impatient; short-tempered.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Fragmentary; snipped.
  • Mean; stingy.
  • Inclined to be supercilious or ‘uppish’; snobbish.
    • Word Usage
    "Quincy, whose shrewd little soul easily divined that this equable warmth of manner, which she dubbed snippy condescension, sprang from affection for Dick and Mrs. Percival and not for herself."
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