snappish (snapish)

[ Snappishe askyng. We doo aske of tenty mes because wee would knowe; we doo aske also because wee would chide, and set forth our grief with more vehemencie. Wilson , Rhetorike. Some silly poor souls be so afraid that at every snap pish word their nose shall be bitten off that they stand in no le dread of every quick and sharp word than he that is bitten of a mad dog feareth water. Sir T. More, Utopia, Ded. to Peter Giles, p. 12. He was hungry and snappish ; she was hurried and cro . Whyte Melville, White Rose, I. vii. =Syn. 2. Touchy, testy, crusty, petulant, pettish, splenetic. snappishly (snap'ish-li), adv . In a snappish manner; peevishly; angrily; tartly. "Sit down, I tell you," said old Feather stone, snap pishly . "Stop where you are." George Eliot, Middle march, xxxii. snappishne (snap'ish-nes), n. The character of being snappish; peevishne ; tartne . snappy (snap'i), a. [ It [lacro e] is a game well-suited to the American taste, being short, snappy , and vivacious from beginning to finish. Tribune Book of Sports , p. 118.