snappish

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
snappish
    adj 1: apt to speak irritably; "a snappish tone of voice" [syn:
           {snappish}, {snappy}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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