Rudely abrupt or froward, testy.

Of persons: Using, or apt to use, sharp, harsh, or uncivil language; peevish, testy, or ill-natured in speech or reply.

Of utterances (occasionally of gestures, etc.): Rudely, angrily, or sternly brief or curt. Of persons (chiefly predicative): Rudely or angrily curt…

figurative. Of words, speech, a speaker: Sharp in tone or tendency, biting, cutting, acrimonious, caustic.

Sharp, curt, snappish; peevish, petulant.

Sharp, snappish.

Snappish, quarrelsome, irritable. rare.

Ill-tempered, peevish, snappish, cross.

Originally English regional. Touchy, irritable, short-tempered; censorious, carping. Now rare (chiefly U.S. and archaic in later use).

= snappish, adj. 1.

bitter of speech.

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

Snappish, peevish; greedy.