snappish
/ˈsnæpɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.34 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "A snappish cur"
- "She came to us snappish and suspicious, but when she found what sort of place ours was, it all went off by degrees; […]"
- "The past fortnight had been one of sullenness, cold black looks, short snappish words, and those ingenious contradictions which sometimes vary the halcyon calm of domestic felicity."
- "She heard her own voice, snappish and rude, and pressed a hand to her head."
- "Even though the woman didn't work closely with Barsade, so palpable was her complaining and snappish temperament that it had infected everyone who worked around her."
- "There was something underneath her snappish belligerence that made him feel protective and tolerant."
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle Dutch snappen Dutch snappenbor. Low German snappenbor. English snap Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English snappish From snap + -ish.
Inflected Forms
more snappish (comparative)
most snappish (superlative)