snippy
- Fragmentary; snipped.
- Irritable; impatient; short-tempered; often, in a condescending way.
- Stingy.
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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”).
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