Definitions
Short-tempered or sharply curt.
Word origin
From snip + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian snippig, snippich (“short, brief, blunt”), Dutch snippig (“snippy, shrill”), German Low German snippig (“snippy, snappy”), German schnippisch (“snippy, snappy”).
Used in a sentence
“Near-synonym: choppy”
“Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:stingy, Thesaurus:frugal”
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01“Short in temper”6 letters
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