SNAPPISH
ADJECTIVES
► CAPERNOITED crabbed, irritable, peevish; snappish; ill-natured, fractious → 1719 Sc.
► CLIPPIE sharp of speech; snappish, pert → 19C Sc.
► CRUP pettish, peevish, snappish, surly → 1736 Eng. dial.
► CURRISH like a cur in nature; snappish, snarling, quarrelsome, mean-spirited, base, ignoble → c1460
► CUTTED short to rudeness; curt, snappish → 1530 obs.
► DOGGISH malicious, spiteful, bad-tempered, ill-natured; snappish, snarling; cynical→ a1425
► KNAGGY cross, snappish, querulous; irritable; sarcastic → 1840 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► NAGGEDY ► NAGGETY snappish → 1903 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NAGGY cross, snappish, querulous; shrewish; irritable; ill-natured, bad-tempered, testy; sarcastic → 1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SANSHACH proud, distant; disdainful; snappish, saucy → 1825 Sc.
► SNAPHANCE retorting sharply, snappish → 1592 obs.
► TEPTIOUS snappish, captious; irritating; treacherous, changeable, not to be depended upon → 1876 Eng. dial.
► TOITISH saucy, pert, or impudent; easily offended; flighty in temper; irritable, ill-tempered, snappish → 1846 Eng. dial.
NOUNS – PERSON
► YAFFLER a snappish person → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► YAPPER a snappish, sharp person → 1901 Eng. dial.
VERBS
► YAP to talk snappishly, noisily, or foolishly; to chatter; to scold → 1895 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
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