snippyadj.

Brit.

/ˈsnɪpi/, U.S.

/ˈsnɪpi/

Etymology: < snip v. Compare Dutch snippig (Frisian snippich) snappish.

1. dialect. Parsimonious, mean; covetous.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective]

gnedec900

gripplea1000

fastOE

narrow-hearteda1200

narrow?c1225

straitc1290

chinchc1300

nithinga1325

scarcec1330

clama1340

hard1340

scantc1366

sparingc1386

niggardc1400

chinchy?1406

retentivea1450

niggardousa1492

niggish1519

unliberal1533

pinching1548

dry1552

nigh1555

niggardly1560

churlish1566

squeamish1566

niggardish1567

niggard-like1567

holding1569

spare1577

handfast1578

envious1580

close-handed1585

hard-handed1587

curmudgeonly1590

parsimonious?1591

costive1594

hidebound1598

penny-pinching1600

penurious1600

strait-handed1600

club-fisted1601

dry-fisted1604

fast-handed1605

fast-fingered1607

close-fisted1608

near1611

scanting1613

carkingc1620

illiberal1623

clutch-fisteda1634

hideboundeda1640

clutch-fista1643

clunch-fisted1644

unbounteous1645

hard-fisted1646

purse-bound1652

close1654

stingy1659

tenacious1676

scanty1692

sneaking1696

gripe-handed1698

narrow-souled1699

niggardling1704

snippy1727

unindulgent1742

shabby1766

neargoinga1774

cheesemongering1781

split-farthing1787

save-all1788

picked1790

iron-fisted1794

unhandsome1800

scaly1803

nearbegoing1805

tight1805

nippit1808

nipcheese1819

cumin-splitting1822

partan-handed1823

scrimping1823

scrumptious1823

scrimpy1825

meanly1827

skinny1833

pinchfisted1837

mean1840

tight-fisted1843

screwy1844

stinty1849

cheeseparing1857

skinflinty1886

mouly1904

mingy1911

cheapskate1912

picey1937

tight-assed1961

chintzy1964

tightwad1976

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Snippy, parcimonious, niggardly.

1825– in dial. glossaries, etc. ( Eng. Dial. Dict. ).

2. dialect and colloquial. Fault-finding, snappish, sharp; putting on airs, supercilious.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adjective]

taunt?a1534

cocket1537

fastuous?1591

cobbing1599

whalebone1602

airy1606

fastigious1625

flatuous1630

high and mighty1633

vapouring1647

flatulent1658

hoity-toity1690

jackanapish1696

superior1711

penseful1788

uppish1789

pensy1790

stuck-up1812

glorified1821

toploftical1823

pretentious1832

sophomoric1837

highty-tighty1847

snippy1848

jumped-up1852

set-up1856

toplofty1859

cock-aloft1861

high-tone1864

high-toned1866

pretensivea1868

fancy-pants1870

hunched1870

snotty1870

head-in-air1880

uppity1880

jackanapsian1881

airified1882

sidey1898

posh1914

upstage1918

snooty1919

high-hatted1924

hincty1924

snot-nosed1941

posho1989

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [adjective] > captiously

captiousc1380

pick-fault1544

fastidious?1555

sharp-nosed1561

cavillous?1571

carpacious1574

cavillinga1576

find-fault1576

Zoilous1577

carpinga1586

exceptious1602

quarrellous1610

exceptive1623

Zoilitical1665

nibbling1691

pickthanking1830

Zoilean1846

snippy1848

nitpicking1948

nitpicky1962

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > irritable [adjective] > snappish or sharp-tongued

knappish1542

snappish1542

short1591

tart1601

tart-tongued1602

nimble-tongued1608

snapping1642

snapper1673

snip-snap1770

snaggy1781

twittya1825

snappy1834

sharp-tongued1837

snippy1848

snack1883

1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Snippy, finical; and substantively, a finical person.

1887 A. C. Gunter Mr. Barnes xx So dictatorial!.. And so snippy!

1894 P. L. Ford Hon. Peter Stirling xxx. 171 Before I could possibly have said or done anything to offend her, she treated me in the snippiest way.

1896 Harper's Mag. June 23/2 She's too snippy for me.

1934 E. Carr Jrnl. 12 Feb. in Hundreds & Thousands (1966) 95 I don't want to be mean and snippy but I don't think they know.

1952 H. Garner Yellow Sweater 93 There followed an explanation of why her son hadn't been attending school as regular as he should, and how snippy the teacher was getting to be.

1961 Insurance Salesman Jan. 47/1 One of our clerks was a snippy, opinionated girl who kept everything unsettled and rubbed everyone the wrong way.

1970 J. Potts Affair of Heart viii. 65 I must say, she was very snippy. Downright rude.

1974 Times 28 Feb. 10/6 This irritates Mr Heath... Privately, he is quite snippy about it.

1977 D. Ramsay You can't call it Murder i. 52 Daughter Sarah described as uppity and snippy.

3. Scrappy, fragmentary, snippety.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > [adjective] > scrappy or patchy

patchy1583

sketchy1805

scrappy1842

snippety1864

snippy1886

bitty1892

patchwise1935

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 May 2/1 Paragraphs and very short articles which may fairly be regarded as ‘snippy’ bits.

Draft additions 1993

ˈsnippily adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [adverb] > sharply

caustically1850

causticly1870

acidly1880

snippily1977

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > [adverb] > snappishly

snappishly1548

knappishly1549

snappingly1567

tartly1600

snappily1890

snippily1977

1977 D. E. Westlake Nobody's Perfect (1978) ii. 26 It was an English-accented female voice that answered, snippily, saying, ‘Hold on for Mister Stonewiler, please.’

1985 N.Y. Times 21 Apr. ii. 22/3 The novelist Kingsley Amis recently wrote to The Times of London snippily opining that subsidized artists were less interested in pleasing the public than in impressing ‘critics, colleagues, friends, experts, bureaucrats’.

ˈsnippiness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > [noun] > snappishness

snippiness1935

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > instance of > sharp > quality

sharpnessa1325

spinosity1605

snippiness1935

1935 E. Carr Jrnl. 24 Jan. (1966) 169 I suppose first we must climb to the rise above the trivial snippiness, quit bickering and open our eyes wider and get stiller—quit fussing.

1987 Los Angeles Times 13 Oct. (San Diego County ed.) vi. 3/1 Vanda Eggington is a natural comedienne, at one point playing a self-righteous church lady with Gilda Radner snippiness.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	snippy
释义	snippyadj. Brit. /ˈsnɪpi/, U.S. /ˈsnɪpi/ Etymology: < snip v. Compare Dutch snippig (Frisian snippich) snappish. 1. dialect. Parsimonious, mean; covetous. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective] gnedec900 gripplea1000 fastOE narrow-hearteda1200 narrow?c1225 straitc1290 chinchc1300 nithinga1325 scarcec1330 clama1340 hard1340 scantc1366 sparingc1386 niggardc1400 chinchy?1406 retentivea1450 niggardousa1492 niggish1519 unliberal1533 pinching1548 dry1552 nigh1555 niggardly1560 churlish1566 squeamish1566 niggardish1567 niggard-like1567 holding1569 spare1577 handfast1578 envious1580 close-handed1585 hard-handed1587 curmudgeonly1590 parsimonious?1591 costive1594 hidebound1598 penny-pinching1600 penurious1600 strait-handed1600 club-fisted1601 dry-fisted1604 fast-handed1605 fast-fingered1607 close-fisted1608 near1611 scanting1613 carkingc1620 illiberal1623 clutch-fisteda1634 hideboundeda1640 clutch-fista1643 clunch-fisted1644 unbounteous1645 hard-fisted1646 purse-bound1652 close1654 stingy1659 tenacious1676 scanty1692 sneaking1696 gripe-handed1698 narrow-souled1699 niggardling1704 snippy1727 unindulgent1742 shabby1766 neargoinga1774 cheesemongering1781 split-farthing1787 save-all1788 picked1790 iron-fisted1794 unhandsome1800 scaly1803 nearbegoing1805 tight1805 nippit1808 nipcheese1819 cumin-splitting1822 partan-handed1823 scrimping1823 scrumptious1823 scrimpy1825 meanly1827 skinny1833 pinchfisted1837 mean1840 tight-fisted1843 screwy1844 stinty1849 cheeseparing1857 skinflinty1886 mouly1904 mingy1911 cheapskate1912 picey1937 tight-assed1961 chintzy1964 tightwad1976 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Snippy, parcimonious, niggardly. 1825– in dial. glossaries, etc. ( Eng. Dial. Dict. ). 2. dialect and colloquial. Fault-finding, snappish, sharp; putting on airs, supercilious. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adjective] taunt?a1534 cocket1537 fastuous?1591 cobbing1599 whalebone1602 airy1606 fastigious1625 flatuous1630 high and mighty1633 vapouring1647 flatulent1658 hoity-toity1690 jackanapish1696 superior1711 penseful1788 uppish1789 pensy1790 stuck-up1812 glorified1821 toploftical1823 pretentious1832 sophomoric1837 highty-tighty1847 snippy1848 jumped-up1852 set-up1856 toplofty1859 cock-aloft1861 high-tone1864 high-toned1866 pretensivea1868 fancy-pants1870 hunched1870 snotty1870 head-in-air1880 uppity1880 jackanapsian1881 airified1882 sidey1898 posh1914 upstage1918 snooty1919 high-hatted1924 hincty1924 snot-nosed1941 posho1989 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [adjective] > captiously captiousc1380 pick-fault1544 fastidious?1555 sharp-nosed1561 cavillous?1571 carpacious1574 cavillinga1576 find-fault1576 Zoilous1577 carpinga1586 exceptious1602 quarrellous1610 exceptive1623 Zoilitical1665 nibbling1691 pickthanking1830 Zoilean1846 snippy1848 nitpicking1948 nitpicky1962 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > irritable [adjective] > snappish or sharp-tongued knappish1542 snappish1542 short1591 tart1601 tart-tongued1602 nimble-tongued1608 snapping1642 snapper1673 snip-snap1770 snaggy1781 twittya1825 snappy1834 sharp-tongued1837 snippy1848 snack1883 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Snippy, finical; and substantively, a finical person. 1887 A. C. Gunter Mr. Barnes xx So dictatorial!.. And so snippy! 1894 P. L. Ford Hon. Peter Stirling xxx. 171 Before I could possibly have said or done anything to offend her, she treated me in the snippiest way. 1896 Harper's Mag. June 23/2 She's too snippy for me. 1934 E. Carr Jrnl. 12 Feb. in Hundreds & Thousands (1966) 95 I don't want to be mean and snippy but I don't think they know. 1952 H. Garner Yellow Sweater 93 There followed an explanation of why her son hadn't been attending school as regular as he should, and how snippy the teacher was getting to be. 1961 Insurance Salesman Jan. 47/1 One of our clerks was a snippy, opinionated girl who kept everything unsettled and rubbed everyone the wrong way. 1970 J. Potts Affair of Heart viii. 65 I must say, she was very snippy. Downright rude. 1974 Times 28 Feb. 10/6 This irritates Mr Heath... Privately, he is quite snippy about it. 1977 D. Ramsay You can't call it Murder i. 52 Daughter Sarah described as uppity and snippy. 3. Scrappy, fragmentary, snippety. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > [adjective] > scrappy or patchy patchy1583 sketchy1805 scrappy1842 snippety1864 snippy1886 bitty1892 patchwise1935 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 May 2/1 Paragraphs and very short articles which may fairly be regarded as ‘snippy’ bits. Draft additions 1993 ˈsnippily adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [adverb] > sharply caustically1850 causticly1870 acidly1880 snippily1977 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > [adverb] > snappishly snappishly1548 knappishly1549 snappingly1567 tartly1600 snappily1890 snippily1977 1977 D. E. Westlake Nobody's Perfect (1978) ii. 26 It was an English-accented female voice that answered, snippily, saying, ‘Hold on for Mister Stonewiler, please.’ 1985 N.Y. Times 21 Apr. ii. 22/3 The novelist Kingsley Amis recently wrote to The Times of London snippily opining that subsidized artists were less interested in pleasing the public than in impressing ‘critics, colleagues, friends, experts, bureaucrats’. ˈsnippiness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > [noun] > snappishness snippiness1935 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > instance of > sharp > quality sharpnessa1325 spinosity1605 snippiness1935 1935 E. Carr Jrnl. 24 Jan. (1966) 169 I suppose first we must climb to the rise above the trivial snippiness, quit bickering and open our eyes wider and get stiller—quit fussing. 1987 Los Angeles Times 13 Oct. (San Diego County ed.) vi. 3/1 Vanda Eggington is a natural comedienne, at one point playing a self-righteous church lady with Gilda Radner snippiness. 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