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Definition of snippy in English: snippyadjectivesnippier, snippiest ˈsnɪpiˈsnɪpi North American informal Curt or sharp, especially in a condescending way. 〈非正式〉言语唐突的；尖刻的（尤指口气盛气凌人的） a snippy note from our landlord 我们房东写的一张措辞尖刻的便条。 Example sentencesExamples - I have seen people come back for seconds before some people have had firsts, and when you point this out to them they get snippy about it.
- Sure, first you get snippy with me for telling you and now you yell at me for not telling you sooner.
- ‘I can take care of myself,’ said Melena in a snippy voice.
- This little green-eyed troublemaker is sneaking up all over my relationship, through narrowed eyes, snippy retorts, and generally malicious thoughts.
- The gardener got quite snippy and started lecturing me about the law and asserting that she had a legal right to cut back the trees in her yard.
- I've seen you for the past three days, and you've never gotten snippy like that before.
- ‘Free country,’ Jesse answered, his voice more than a little snippy.
- I didn't want to engage with him, but I was just too weak to extricate myself from the conversation, and, accordingly, got a little snippy.
- That aside… man, I was pretty snippy today, wasn't I?
- He got snippy if too many people started hanging around.
- I've gone over the text many times, and I don't see how someone could think that I'd replied with only a single, snippy, off-topic paragraph.
- They just giggle and are snippy and mean and sort of dumb.
- He was snippy, feisty and reminded me of an argumentative drunk who challenges the whole bar to a fist fight.
- Some people need to read some history before they get snippy.
- Because if you are not received nicely, and they are sort of snippy to you, you are not going to enjoy your food, are you?
- I hope you are aware that the entire class can hear your snippy comments.
- My response is that it seems that Paige is being snippy.
- Mother, I have never heard that person be snippy to you or to anyone else.
- And of course they're being pretty snippy with each other from time to time.
- I apologize for being unnecessarily snippy and for overlooking, misunderstanding or inadvertently mischaracterizing the arguments of opponents.
Synonyms terse, brusque, abrupt, clipped, blunt, short, monosyllabic, summary, snappy, snappish, sharp, crisp, tart
Derivativesadverb North American informal It's good, but not great: very disjointed, no coherent argument (as one critic has rather snippily pointed out) and appears to have some glaring omissions if you want to see it as a documentary. Example sentencesExamples - ‘You weren't living at home,’ Jen said snippily.
- ‘Not all patients here look sick,’ she replied snippily with narrowed eyes.
- She retorted snippily, ‘That might be because you never grew up.’
- When I said I couldn't remember if I'd shopped there before, she huffed, and snippily asked me for my information.
noun North American informal I am surprised how easily he dismisses my snippiness. Example sentencesExamples - I grew up in a household where snippiness was regarded as a form of repartee, and so did both my exes.
- If you look past the occasional snippiness of the Post's reporter, it's not a bad portrait of person that most of us will find very sympathetic.
- The snippiness of his e-mail is worth noting, but I want to comment on its highly misleading content.
- She is well used to the snippiness of health professionals.
Rhymeschippy, clippie, dippy, drippy, grippy, hippy, Lippi, lippy, Mississippi, nippy, slippy, tippy, trippy, whippy, Xanthippe, zippy Definition of snippy in US English: snippyadjectiveˈsnipēˈsnɪpi North American informal Curt or sharp, especially in a condescending way. 〈非正式〉言语唐突的；尖刻的（尤指口气盛气凌人的） a snippy note from our landlord 我们房东写的一张措辞尖刻的便条。 Example sentencesExamples - The gardener got quite snippy and started lecturing me about the law and asserting that she had a legal right to cut back the trees in her yard.
- Some people need to read some history before they get snippy.
- I have seen people come back for seconds before some people have had firsts, and when you point this out to them they get snippy about it.
- They just giggle and are snippy and mean and sort of dumb.
- He got snippy if too many people started hanging around.
- Because if you are not received nicely, and they are sort of snippy to you, you are not going to enjoy your food, are you?
- Mother, I have never heard that person be snippy to you or to anyone else.
- I hope you are aware that the entire class can hear your snippy comments.
- That aside… man, I was pretty snippy today, wasn't I?
- I've gone over the text many times, and I don't see how someone could think that I'd replied with only a single, snippy, off-topic paragraph.
- My response is that it seems that Paige is being snippy.
- ‘Free country,’ Jesse answered, his voice more than a little snippy.
- I've seen you for the past three days, and you've never gotten snippy like that before.
- ‘I can take care of myself,’ said Melena in a snippy voice.
- This little green-eyed troublemaker is sneaking up all over my relationship, through narrowed eyes, snippy retorts, and generally malicious thoughts.
- He was snippy, feisty and reminded me of an argumentative drunk who challenges the whole bar to a fist fight.
- And of course they're being pretty snippy with each other from time to time.
- Sure, first you get snippy with me for telling you and now you yell at me for not telling you sooner.
- I apologize for being unnecessarily snippy and for overlooking, misunderstanding or inadvertently mischaracterizing the arguments of opponents.
- I didn't want to engage with him, but I was just too weak to extricate myself from the conversation, and, accordingly, got a little snippy.
Synonyms terse, brusque, abrupt, clipped, blunt, short, monosyllabic, summary, snappy, snappish, sharp, crisp, tart
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