Snappish

Definition: Snappish

Snappish

Adjective

1. Tending to speak irritably; "a snappish tone of voice".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "snappish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Synonym: Snappish

Irascibility

Hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy; like touchwood, like tinder; huffy; pettish, petulant; waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, " sudden and quick in quarrel ".

Crosswords: Snappish

Sometimes she just looks snappish. (Ally McBeal; writing credit: Henri Vernes)

That was a snappish remark disguised in a soft tone. (Ally McBeal; writing credit: Henri Vernes)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "snappish": bristly prickly snappish splenetic waspish. Additional references.

Albanian

që kafshon, i egër (atrocious, barbarous, bestial, cannibalic, cannibalish, cruel, despiteful, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, furious, merciless, outrageous, rabid, savage, tigerish, tigrish, vicious, wild), gojashpër (sharp tongued, snappy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نزق سريع الغضب, ‏لاذع (acerb, acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, bitterly, burning, caustic, cutting, harsh, hot, keen, mordant, nippy, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, rough, salty, sarcastic, savory, savoury, scathing, scorching, sharp, sharp tongued, smarting, snappy, spicy, spiteful, stinging, tart, waspish). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сърдит (angry, cross, gruff, high, huffish, huffy, irate, ireful, peevish, ratty, red-necked, resentful, rusty, sour, stroppy, sullen), сприхав (breezy, combustible, hasty, high-spirited, hoity toity, hot tempered, hotheaded, irascible, irritable, peppery, petulant, quick tempered, short tempered, snappy, spicy, testy, violent, waxy), рязък (abrupt, acid, bitter, brief, brusque, curt, gravelly, hard, incisive, jarring, jerky, metallic, offhand, pipy, point blank, rapid, rude, sharp, short, short-spoken, shrill, snappy, snippy, stark, straight out, strident, trenchant), раздразнителен (bad tempered, chippy, choleric, edgy, excitable, explosive, fretful, gingery, ill, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, irascible, irritable, liverish, livery, nervous, nervy, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, raspy, ratty, stroppy, techy, tetchy, touchy, vinegary), който хапе (biter, snappy). (various references)

Czech

chòapavý. (various references)

Farsi 

کج خلق (Crab, Irritable, Morose, Peevish, Petulant, Querulous, Sullen, Techy, Tedious, Testy), گازگیر (Snappy), خشمگین (Exasperate, Indignant, Irate, Loathloth, Rabid, Waxy, Wroth), دارای مزه بد. (various references)

French

hargneux. (various references)

German

borstig (bristly, wiry), bissig (acrimonious, bitchy, currish, edgy, fierce, prickly, ratty, scathing, snappily, snappy, sour, vicious, waspish). (various references)

Greek 

ζωηρόσ (bobbish, bouncing, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, cheery, chipper, crisp, dapper, dashing, frisky, gay, grig, jaunty, lightsome, live, lively, lurid, mercurial, peppy, perky, poignant, quick, racy, rompish, smacking, smart, snappy, spanking, sparkish, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, volatile, zippy), οξύθυμοσ (irascible, pettish, quick tempered, sorehead, spitfire, splenish), δριμύσ (acrid, acrimonious, astringent, biting, caustic, hard, harsh, keen, poignant, pungent, scathing, severe, slashing, smart, snappy, tart, trenchant), δηκτικόσ (acrimonious, biting, caustic, cutting, mordant, nippy, poignant, pointed, scathing, stinging). (various references)

Hebrew 

קצר וחריף, קצר רוח (impatient, irascible, quick tempered, short), עצב� י (edgy, fidgety, fretful, in a stew, irritable, jerky, jumpy, liverish, nervous, peevish, short, testy, uptight). (various references)

Hungarian

harapós (acrimonious, cantankerous, snapper, snapping, snappy, spiky, venomous, vicious), pattogó (snappy, sparkling), ingerült (edgy, have one's nerves on edge, have the needles, huffy, indignant, ireful, nettled, ratty, rubbed, ruffled, shirty, snappy, to be on edge), csattanó (clashing, nub, point, punch line), élesen csattanó (snappy). (various references)

Indonesian

galak (fierce, frantic, gruff, impudent, plucky, sharp and mean, surly, vicious). (various references)

Italian

permaloso (peevish, prickly, sensitive, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy), irritabile (bad tempered, crotchety, edgy, excitable, fretful, irritable, jittery, petulant, techy, testy, tetchy, touchy, vinegary), bisbetico (cantankerous, crabbed, ill-humored, ill-humoured, shrewish). (various references)

Manx

sneggagh, greimaght, granganys (cantankerousness, cattishness, cynicism, disagreeableness, fractiousness, fretfulness, grumpiness, peevishness), feeacklaght, caulgid (bristliness, prickliness). (various references)

Pig Latin

appishsnay

Portuguese

resmungão (croaker, cross-patch, mumbler, nagger, snappy), mal-humorado (bad-tempered, cantankerous, choleric, crusty, glum, ill-humored, ill-humoured, ill-tempered, moody, mumpish, snappy, snotty, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, techy, testy, tetchy), maldisposto (chippy, fretful, grumpy, queasy, snappy, snippy, unwell, upstage), irritado (angry, huffish, huffy, peeved, pettish, resentful, roily, snappy, snotty, sore, techy, testy, tetchy, waxy), intratável (crab, crabbed, crabby, cross-grained, currish, fractious, intractable, kittle, restive, snappy, sullen, surly, unapproachable, uncompromising, unmanageable, unsociable), impertinente (arrogant, brash, cantankerous, currish, impertinent, mumpish, peevish, pernickety, pettish, petulant, querulous, rat, ratty, saucy, snappy, techy, testy, tetchy). (various references)

Romanian

muşcãtor (acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, caustic, mordant, peppery, sarcastic), clonţos (sharp tongued, snappy, thick-billed), aspru (abrupt, abruptly, acid, acrimonious, biting, brisk, callous, clumsy, coarse, crisp, dour, drastic, earthy, edgy, exacting, firm, grating, gruelling, gruff, hard, harsh, hoarse, homespun, husky, ill, inclement, iron, iron-fisted, keen, lashing, nippy, obdurate, punitive, rasping, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, robust, rough, rugged, scabrous, severe, severely, shaggy, shy, smart, stern, stiff, Strait, strict, strong, stubborn, tough, unkind, violent, wiry), agitat (agitated, agog, angry, billowy, choppy, excited, excitedly, fevered, feverish, fractious, fretful, fussy, hectic, irritated, nervous, restless, tempestuous, unsettled). (various references)

Russian 

раздражительный (apoplectic, bad tempered, bad-tempered, chippy, choleric, crab, crabbed, crabby, criss cross, crusty, doggish, fractious, fretful, grouty, grumpy, huffish, huffy, irascible, irritable, livery, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, quick tempered, quicktempered, rambunctious, rusty, short tempered, snooty, snuffy, spleenful, splenetic, testy, touchy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

koji ugriza. (various references)

Spanish

brusco (abrasive, abrupt, abruptly, bluff, blunt answer, brusque, butcher's broom, curt, gruff, offhand, sharp, sudden, terse), abrupto (abrupt, heavy, rapid, violent). (various references)

Swedish

snäsig (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant). (various references)

Thai

ฉุนเฉียวง่าย. (various references)

Turkish

ukalâ (bumptious, cavalier, clever dick, highbrow, know-it-all, pedant, pedantic, prig, priggish, sapient, smart, smart aleck, smarty, wise, wise guy), kızgın (angry, angry with, annoyed, ardent, baking, black, boiling, cross, dyspeptic, fervent, fierce, fiery, flaming, frowning, furious, glowing, hot, hot-blooded, huffy, in a glow, in a pet, in a tiff, incensed, indignant, indignantly, inflamed, irate, ireful, mad, pissed off, red-hot, sore, vexed, wild, wroth), huysuz (acrimonious, as cross as two sticks, bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, crabby, crank, cranky, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, crusty, cursed, difficult, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, farouche, fractious, fretful, gnarled, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, mean, Moody, out of humour, out of sorts, peeved, peevish, peppery, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, querulous, ratty, rusty, shirty, spleenful, spleenish, splenetic, stroppy, sulky, surly, tetchy, thrawn, ugly, untoward, vicious, vixenish, waspish, wildcat, wrongheaded), gıcık (stinker), alaycı (barbed, cynical, derisive, facetious, ironic, ironical, mocker, mocking, mordacious, scoffer, shavian, sneering, wry), aksi (adverse, awkward, bad tempered, bilious, bloody minded, cantankerous, contra, contra-, contrary, counter, crabbed, crabby, cross, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, doggish, dour, evil, fractious, fretful, Froward, gruff, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, inverse, negatory, opposite, peevish, perverse, petulant, recalcitrant, refractory, reverse, shirty, snuffy, spleenful, spleenish, stroppy, stubborn, sullen, surly, tart, testy, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, wrongheaded). (various references)

Ukrainian

різкий (abrupt, acerbic, acrid, acute, argute, bluffy, brief, brusque, curt, harsh, nippy, point blank, raucous, stark, trenchant, vehement, violent), злий (bad, bad tempered, bitter, blackhearted, carping, evil, ill, ill natured, puckish, snotty, vicious, wicked), причепливий (cantankerous, captious, carping, catching, catchy, censorious, fault finding, fuddy-duddy, hypercritical, notional, pernickety, persnickety, snorty). (various references)

Vietnamese 

gắt gỏng (crossly, disagreeable, ill-tempered, snappy, surly, waspish). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "snappish": snappishly, snappishness, snappishnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Snappish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Napisah, scampish, snapies, snapish. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: aspish, phasis, shnaps, spahis.

-3 letters: aphis, apish, apsis, aspis, hasps, nipas, pains, pians, pinas, sains, sasin, shins, ships, sinhs, snaps, snash, snips, spahi, spans, spins.

-4 letters: ains, anis, asps, haps, hasp, hins, hips, hisn, hiss, naps, nipa, nips, pain, pans, paps, pash, pass, phis, pian, pias, pina, pins, pips, pish, piss, psis, sain.

+1 letter: happiness.

+2 letters: pansophies, snappishly, upmanships.

+3 letters: happinesses, penmanships, unhappiness.

+4 letters: captainships, partisanship, partnerships, planispheres, snappishness, transshipped.

+5 letters: apprehensions, championships, misapprehends, partisanships, phosphokinase, spokesmanship, sportsmanship, transshipping, unhappinesses.

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