snippy

Mane (Îngilîzî)

1. Fragmentary; snipped.
2. Irritable; impatient; short-tempered; often, in a condescending way.
3. Stingy.

Hevwate

awkward

bilious

covetous

curmudgeonly

fault-finding

insolent

lubberly

parsimonious

scrappy

sharp

short

snappish

supercilious

tactless

iracund

Philistine

Werger

iracund

aufbrausend

cholerisch

hitzköpfig

σκαιός

κοντός

βραχώς

colérique

irascible

irascibile

collerico

iracondo

nevrastenico

fragmentarisch

سليط اللسان

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Hevwate bi Saterfriesisch: snippig

Hevwate bi holendî: snippig

Hevwate bi almanî: schnippisch

In summary

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”).