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Snappy

Definition: Snappy

Snappy

Adjective

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

2. Smart and fashionable; "snappy conversation"; "some sharp and whipping lines".

3. Pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather"; (`parky' is a British term).

4. Marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat".

5. Quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze".

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

Date "snappy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references)


Specialty Definition: Snappy

DomainDefinition

Computing

Snappy Snappy Video Snapshot. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Synonyms: Snappy

Synonyms: brisk (adj), crisp (adj), dapper (adj), dashing (adj), frosty (adj), jaunty (adj), lively (adj), merry (adj), natty (adj), nipping (adj), nippy (adj), parky (adj), raffish (adj), rakish (adj), rattling (adj), smart (adj), snappish (adj), spanking (adj), spruce (adj), whipping (adj), zippy (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Snappy

English words defined with "snappy": brisklivelymerryrattlingspankingzippy. (references)
Specialty definitions using "snappy": Snappy Video Snapshot. (references)

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Modern Usage: Snappy

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Not only does he have a snappy, punchy prose style, not only does he treat his editor-in-chief with respect, but he is, in my forty years of experience, the fastest typist I have ever encountered. (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

Movie/TV Titles

Snappy Snapshots (1952)

Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Sing Snappy Songs (1923)

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

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Commercial Usage: Snappy

DomainTitle

Books

  • Mad's Al Jaffee Spews Out More Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions (reference)

  • Snap! Snap! Buzz Buzz (Snappy Sounds) (reference)

  • Snappy Little Christmas: Have the Best Christmas Ever! (reference)

  • Snappy Little Colors: Discover a Rainbow of Colors (reference)

  • Snappy Little Numbers: Count the Numbers from 1 to 10 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

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

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Usage Frequency: Snappy

"Snappy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 87.38% of the time. "Snappy" is used about 103 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)87.38%9034,744
Noun (proper)12.62%1397,576
                    Total100.00%103N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Snappy

Expressions using "snappy": make it snappy snappy style snappy Video Snapshot snappy weather. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Snappy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

snappy

116

snappy 4.0

5

snappy turtle

74

3.0 cd driver snappy

4

pizza snappy tomato

24

answer snappy

4

snappy turtle.com

24

dragon snappy

4

comebacks snappy

21

snappy trainer

3

snappy popcorn

17

3 driver snappy

3

snappy fax

16

pizza snappy

3

snappy fax 2000

14

driver play snappy

3

snappy tomato

12

it make snappy

3

car rental snappy

10

back come snappy

3

snappy video snapshot

10

nail snappy

3

snappy software

9

saying snappy

3

dsl snappy

9

lunch snappy

2

snappy tom

9

play snappy

2

mr snappy

9

lube snappy

2

snappy video

8

patch snappy

2

snap snappy

7

photo snappy

2

snappy video capture

6

4.0 snappy software

2

answer question snappy stupid

5

3.0 patch snappy

2

driver snappy

5

casual snappy

2

comebacks insult snappy

2
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Modern Translation: Snappy

Language Translations for "snappy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid), gojashpër (sharp tongued, snappish), energjik (abuzz, active, aggressive, busily, dapper, drastic, dynamic, eager, energetic, forceful, full of beans, get going, high-spirited, live, lively, peppy, punchy, pushing, rattling, stirring, sturdy, vigorous, vital, zippy). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مفاجئ (abrupt, at sea, flash, like a bolt from the blue, precipitate, sudden, surprised, surprising, swift, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked for, unpredicted), ‏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, snappish, spicy, spiteful, stinging, tart, waspish), ‏سريع (brisk, clipping, express, expressible, fast, feathered, fleet, flier, hasty, momentary, nippy, precipitate, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, ready, rife, smart, speed, speedy, swift), ‏بدون تفكير. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сприхав (breezy, combustible, hasty, high-spirited, hoity toity, hot tempered, hotheaded, irascible, irritable, peppery, petulant, quick tempered, short tempered, snappish, 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, snappish, snippy, stark, straight out, strident, trenchant), който хапе (biter, snappish), отривист (crisp, jerky, sharp), жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), енергичен (active, arduous, brisk, demon, driving, energetic, enterprising, firm, go-go, hearty, keen, live, nervous, pithy, pushing, red blooded, robust, sharp, smart, spanking, spicy, spirited, spunky, strong-minded, up and coming, vigorous, vital, youthful, zappy, zippy), елегантен (classy, dashing, debonair, doggy, dressy, elegant, feat, fine, genteel, graceful, jimp, mod, nifty, plush, plushy, posh, rakish, saucy, sharp, silk stocking, smart, stylish, swell, swish, tasty), пъргав (active, agile, alert, alive, deft, elastic, lissom, lithesome, lively, nifty, nimble, nippy, pretty, prompt, quick, ready, resilient, sinuous, smart, spring, spry, versatile, volatile, wanton, warm, whippy, zippy). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

清脆. (various references)

   

Czech

  

výstižný (accurate, apt, cogent, felicitous), trefný (apt, fitting, incisive), ostrý (abrupt, acrid, acute, biting, crisp, ferocious, fierce, glib, hard, harsh, high pitched, hot, incisive, intense, keen, piercing, poignant, pointed, rigorous, sharp, shrill, smart, spicy, strident, tart, tough, trenchant), nevrlý (bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, crabbed, crusty, gruff, grumpy, ill tempered, morose, petulant, querulous, sour, splenetic, sullen, surly), kousavý (acerbic, acrid, barbed, bitchy, biting, caustic, cutting, dry, pointed, scathing, tart, vitriolic, waspish), elegantní (becoming, ciceronian, dapper, dashing, dressy, elegant, fashionable, full-fashioned, glamorous, glamourous, graceful, light-some, natty, neat, sleek, smart, sophisticated, Spruce, swanky, swell, trim). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

snibbig (abrasive, acrid, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, tard), bits (abrasive, acrid, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, tard). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

akratona (abrasive, sharp-toned, shrill, tard). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

گازگیر (Snappish), سرزنده (Alive, Animate, Live, Lively, Spirituous, Sprightly, Vivacious, Yare), جرقه دار, شیک (Chic, Dapper, Dinky, Scrumptious, Smart, Stylish, Suave, Swell, Trig), باروح (Airy, Allegro, Animate, Brisk, Fresh, Gaily, Lively, Peppery, Racy, Spunky). (various references)

   

French

  

sans réflexion, prompt, perçant, dynamique, brusque (sneak, snippy). (various references)

   

German

  

bissig (acrimonious, bitchy, currish, edgy, fierce, prickly, ratty, scathing, snappily, snappish, 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, snappish, spanking, sparkish, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, volatile, zippy), δριμύσ (acrid, acrimonious, astringent, biting, caustic, hard, harsh, keen, poignant, pungent, scathing, severe, slashing, smart, snappish, tart, trenchant). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מלא חיים (graphic, live, lively, racy, sprightly, spry, vibrant), מרץ (dashing, definite, dynamic, energetic, forcible, keen, spirited, sturdy, tearing, trenchant, vigorous). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

lendületes (animated, breezy, buoyant, dashing, energetic, follow-through, full of zip, have plenty of go, lively, to be full of go, zippy), harapós (acrimonious, cantankerous, snapper, snapping, snappish, spiky, venomous, vicious). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

skrækur (abrasive, acrid, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, tard), skerandi (abrasive, acrid, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, tard), hvellur (abrasive, acrid, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, tard). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sbrigante, elegante (chic, courtly, Dandy, dapper, delicate, dressy, elegant, elegantly, fine, graceful, natty, nifty, plush, polite, posh, sleek, smart, stylish), d'effetto, brillante (bright, brilliant, diamond, refulgent, refulgently, scintilating, shining, shiny, slick, smart, splendit, starry). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

刺々しい (harsh, sharp, stinging, thorny), 刺刺しい (harsh, sharp, stinging, thorny). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

と'と'しい (harsh, sharp, stinging, thorny). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

기운찬 (lively). (various references)

   

Manx

  

greimmagh (clutching, grasping, gripping, sticky), granganagh (cantankerous, captious, cattish, catty, churlish, crabbed, crabbed of person, crabby, cross, cross annoyed, cynical, disagreeable, fractious, fretful, grumpy, ill-humoured, ill-natured, ill-tempered, niggly person, peevish), feeacklagh (cogged, dental, dentate, indented, indented as leaf, jagged, serrated, stepped, toothed, toothlike, tusker). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

appysnay

   

Portuguese

  

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

   

Romanian

  

vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, cheery, chirpy, crisp, full of beans, gamy, hasty, hoity toity, lightsome, lithe, live, lively, living, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, racy, Randy, ready, smart, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, vigorous, volatile), rece (apathetically, bleak, chill, chilly, cold, cold blooded, cold-hearted, coldly, cool, crisp, damp, dank, distant, freezingly, frigid, frosty, glacial, hard-hearted, icily, icy, immovable, impersonal, inhuman, nippy, reserved, stale, stiff, stony, wintery, wintry), picant (attractive, fruity, hot, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, racy, salt, Savory, savoury, spicy), energic (a live wire, active, alive, brisk, buoyant, dapper, drastic, dynamic, emphatic, energetic, energetically, forcible, full of beans, humming, iron, keen, lively, living, managing, mightily, peppy, peremptory, pushful, pushing, sharp, stout, stoutly, strenuous, strong, strong-minded, trenchant, virile), clonţos (sharp tongued, snappish, thick-billed), certãreţ (brawler, cantankerous, captious, discordant, eristic, factious, frumpish, peevish, pugnacious, quarrelsome), arţãgos (cantankerous, contradictious, crabbed, cross-grained, crusty, currish, fractious, gruff, peevish, pettish, quarrelsome). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

модный (cheesy, de rigueur, fancy, fashionable, hip, modish, new-fashioned, nifty, nobby, saucy, stylish, swanky, trendy, with it), живой (alive, animate, bouncy, boyish, breathing, breezy, brisk, cheery, chipper, chirp, chirpy, crisp, dashing, hands-on, high-colored, high-coloured, jazzy, jocund, live, lively, living, lusty, nimble, oomph, peppy, poignant, quick, rip-roaring, roaring, scintillating, skittish, sparky, spirited, sprightly, spry, vital, vivacious, vivid, zippy). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pomodan (faddy, fashionable, modish, sharp, smart, stylish, trendy), elegantan (classy, dressy, elegant, fancy, gracious, smart, swank), žustar (agile, brisk, dashing, glowing, hot, lively, pert, smart, spry, spunky). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rápido (agile, darting, express, express train, fast, fast train, fasting, fleeting, heel bar, live, lively, nippy, prompt, quick, quick fire, quick-firing, rapid, rapids, rathe, rattling, riffle, shoot, short, slapping, slashing, slick, spanking, speedy, swift, swift-flowing, twinkling), instantáneo (instant, instantaneous), enérgico (active, bold, brisk, dashing, determined, emphatic, energetic, forceful, forcible, forthright, hearty, high pressure, hot, lively, positive, powerful, pushful, spirited, sprightly, strenuous, strong, sturdy, telling, vigorous, vital, zippy), conciso (brief, concise, pithy, short). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

retlig (crabbed, fretful, fretting, ill tempered, irritable, Moody, peevish, pettish, snuffy, testy, touchy, waspish), piffig (jaunty, piquant, saucy), livlig (adroit, agile, alert, animate, animated, brisk, bubbly, buckish, high pitched, intense, keen, kittenish, lively, mercurial, mettlesome, nimble, pert, racy, rousing, vital, vivacious, volatile), knastrande (crackle, crackling, crepitation, crunch, crunchy), frisk (crisp, fresh, good, Hale, healthy, lively, lusty, smacking, sound, strong, sweet, well, whole), bitsk (ill tempered, savage). (various references)

   

Thai

  

คล่องแคล่ว (glib, lissom, lissome, lively, sleek, slick). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yerinde (answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, calculated, condign, conformable, expedient, felicitous, fit, fitted, grandiloquent, in, in one's stead, in place, just, legitimate, on the premises, opportune, Pat, pertinent, pointed, pro-, proper, pursuant, rightful, sound, suitable, valid, well, well-judged), kıpır kıpır (beany, fidgety, humming, like a jack-in-the-box, restive, restless, restlessly), hazır (agreeable, at hand, available, content, cut and dried, disposed, finished, forthcoming, forward, game, go, handy, in the mood for, in train, officinal, on, on hand, on one's mettle, on tap, operational, prepared, present, prompt, quick, reach-me-down, ready, ready made, readymade, ripe, stand by, up for, willing), hızlı (crash, expeditious, express, fast, fastmoving, fleet, frequent, hasty, high speed, impetuous, light footed, nippy, precipitous, presto, quick, quick-action, rakish, rapid, ready, speed, speedy, swift, winged, zippy), canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy), şık (alternative, chic, choice, classy, dandyish, dapper, dashing, doggy, dressy, elegant, fashionable, flash, go-go, in the ton, jaunty, mod, nifty, posh, rakish, saucy, sharp, sleek, smart, smooth, smug, snazzy, spicy, spiffing, spiffy, sporty, streamlined, stylish, swagger, swanky, swell, swish, thoroughbred, tidy, tonish, trig, up-market), atik (agile, alert, lissom, lissome, nimble, quick), çabuk (apace, be quick, come, come on, early, expeditious, fast, hasty, hurry, hurry up, in double time, in good time, light footed, lissom, lissome, nimble, precipitous, presto, prompt, pronto, quick, quick-action, quickly, rapid, ready, sharp, soon, speedy, swift, swiftly). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

розумний (advisable, brainy, clever, intelligent, rational, reasonable, right-minded, sapient, sensible, sharp-sighted, sharp-witted, strong-minded, tenable, understanding, well advised, wise, witty), швидкий (agile, arrowy, dapper, double quick, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleeting, hasty, nippy, precipitate, present, prompt, quick, rapid, spanking, speedy, summary, swift, whipping, zippy), модний (cheesy, chic, dressy, fancy, fashionable, in wear, modish, nifty, passant, spiffing, stylish, swellish). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Snappy

Misspellings

"Snappy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sanpy, Sappi, sappo, slappy, snapp, snapy, sneepy, snipy, snupps. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Snappy"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "snappy" (pronounced sna"pē)
3-a" p ēcrappie, happy, scrappy, unhappy.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Snappy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-n-p-p-s-y"

-1 letter: nappy, pansy, sappy.

-2 letters: naps, nays, pans, paps, pays, pyas, snap, span, spay, yaps.

-3 letters: any, asp, ays, nap, nay, pan, pap, pas, pay, pya, sap, say, spa, spy, syn, yap.

-4 letters: an, as, ay, na, pa, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-n-p-p-s-y"
 

+2 letters: pansophy, playpens, snappily.

 

+3 letters: hypopneas, pattypans, polypneas, popinjays.

 

+4 letters: hyperpneas, paranymphs, sandpapery, snappishly.

 

+5 letters: hyperplanes, misapplying, prepayments, presynaptic, suppliantly, tryptophans, unstoppably.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Snappy


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6E 61 70 70 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101110 01100001 01110000 01110000 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#110 &#97 &#112 &#112 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006E 0061 0070 0070 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

538067828291

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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