adj
Meaning 1
Likely to snap or bite.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- A snappish cur
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
snappish
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈsnæpɪʃ/
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rhymes with -æpɪʃ
adj
Meaning 2
Exhibiting irritation or impatience; curt; irascible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
apt to speak irritably
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a snappish tone of voice
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: snappy
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle Dutch snappen Dutch snappenbor. Low German snappenbor. English snap Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English snappish From snap + -ish.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: хаплив (hapliv) — likely to snap or bite
- Finnish: pureva — likely to snap or bite
- French: hargneux — likely to snap or bite
- German: bissig — likely to snap or bite
- Latin: mordax — likely to snap or bite
- Swedish: bitsk — likely to snap or bite
- Bulgarian: сприхав (sprihav) — exhibiting irritation
- Bulgarian: раздразнителен (razdraznitelen) — exhibiting irritation
- Finnish: kärkevä — exhibiting irritation
- Finnish: tiuskiva — exhibiting irritation
- French: hargneux — exhibiting irritation
- German: patzig — exhibiting irritation
- German: schnippisch — exhibiting irritation
- Swedish: snäsig — exhibiting irritation
- Swedish: argsint — exhibiting irritation