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snappishness


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Snappish  \Snap"pish\,  a. 
  1.  Apt  to  snap  at  persons  or  things  eager  to  bite;  as  a 
  snapping  cur. 
 
  2.  Sharp  in  reply;  apt  to  speak  angrily  or  testily;  easily 
  provoked;  tart;  peevish. 
 
  The  taunting  address  of  a  snappish  misanthrope. 
  --Jeffrey. 
  --  {Snap"pish*ly},  adv  --  {Snap"pish*ness},  n. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  snappishness 
  n  :  a  disposition  to  exhibit  uncontrolled  anger;  "his  temper  was 
  well  known  to  all  his  employees"  [syn:  {temper},  {biliousness}, 
  {irritability},  {peevishness},  {pettishness},  {surliness}] 




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