Snap"pish (?), a.
1.
Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.
2.
Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish.
The taunting address of a snappish missanthrope.
Jeffrey.
-- Snap"pish*ly, adv. -- Snap"pish*ness, n.
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