"snippy" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈsnɪpi/ Forms: snippier [comparative], snippiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɪpi Etymology: 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”). Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|snip|y}} snip + -y, {{cog|stq|snippig}} Saterland Frisian snippig, {{cog|nl|snippig|t=snippy, shrill}} Dutch snippig (“snippy, shrill”), {{cog|nds-de|snippig|t=snippy, snappy}} German Low German snippig (“snippy, snappy”), {{cog|de|schnippisch|t=snippy, snappy}} German schnippisch (“snippy, snappy”) Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} snippy (comparative snippier, superlative snippiest)
  1. Fragmentary; snipped. Synonyms: snippety, choppy
    Sense id: en-snippy-en-adj-4tmZU4e9 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments
  2. Irritable; impatient; short-tempered; often, in a condescending way. Synonyms: snippety, snitty Coordinate_terms: snide
    Sense id: en-snippy-en-adj-5dYkG8Kk
  3. Stingy.
    Sense id: en-snippy-en-adj-B5ZDGYuS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Personality Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 33 60 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 10 26 64 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 3 35 62 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 32 66 Disambiguation of Personality: 0 0 100 Synonyms: as tight as Dick's hatband [dated], cheap, cheeseparing, chintzy, close, close as wax, close-fisted, illiberal, mean, miserable [obsolete], miserly, narrow-fisted, niggardly, nipcheese, parsimonious, peddling, penny-wise, penny-pinching, penurious, scrooge-like, scrubby, shabby, still got one's communion money, stingy, swear [British, dialectal], tight, tight-fisted, tight as a tick, tighter than Dick's hatband [dated], ungenerous, ungiving, abstemious, canny, chary, moderate, cheap, close with a buck, economical, frugal, husbandly [obsolete], huswifely, parsimonious, penny-pinching, prudent, spareful [obsolete], sparing, spary [obsolete], thrifty, tight, tightwad
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: snippiness Related terms: snipper, snippetiness, snippy snip

Inflected forms

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          "word": "chary"
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          "word": "thrifty"
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          "word": "tight"
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}

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