"snipy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1858, The New sporting magazine - Volume 35, page 85:",
          "text": "The wind was blowing almost a storm as we arrived at our first ground -- a good-sized lake, with broad moory flats, sprinkled with bulrushes and sedgy grass stretching down to the water's edge, and looking uncommonly snipy.",
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          "ref": "1897, John Tyndall, Pioneer Planter, Voyager and Explorer, page 20:",
          "text": "To all this I agreed, and having borrowed a gun from one of my Rifle Officer friends, and a good stock of ammunition, I joined my two new friends at funfire in the morning, and after driving about 6 miles, I saw some very snipy-looking fields, got down, my companions promising to call for me about 11 o'clock on their way back.",
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          "ref": "1936, Geoffrey Alton, Craig Herklots, The Hong Kong Naturalist - Volumes 7-8, page 8:",
          "text": "Some however, say it is the result of a capricious disposition which induces them to leave \"snipy places\" for other spots, but though possible, I am, after many years careful observation, inclined to disagree.",
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          "ref": "1993, Pure-bred Dogs, American Kennel Gazette - Volume 110, page 146:",
          "text": "The muzzle is strong and squared off, never snipy.",
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          "ref": "2001, Kathryn Hughes, George Eliot: The Last Victorian, →ISBN, page 330:",
          "text": "On 16 December 1878 Marian went to court to prove the will, an ordeal which even the usually snipy George Simpson though she should have been spared.",
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          "ref": "1858, The New sporting magazine - Volume 35, page 85:",
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        },
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          "ref": "1897, John Tyndall, Pioneer Planter, Voyager and Explorer, page 20:",
          "text": "To all this I agreed, and having borrowed a gun from one of my Rifle Officer friends, and a good stock of ammunition, I joined my two new friends at funfire in the morning, and after driving about 6 miles, I saw some very snipy-looking fields, got down, my companions promising to call for me about 11 o'clock on their way back.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1936, Geoffrey Alton, Craig Herklots, The Hong Kong Naturalist - Volumes 7-8, page 8:",
          "text": "Some however, say it is the result of a capricious disposition which induces them to leave \"snipy places\" for other spots, but though possible, I am, after many years careful observation, inclined to disagree.",
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          "text": "The muzzle is strong and squared off, never snipy.",
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        "Prone to sniping."
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