snappish

• HYPHEN: snap=pish

CIDE DICTIONARY

snappish, a. 

•  Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.  [1913 Webster]
•  Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish.  [1913 Webster]

  "The taunting address of a snappish misanthrope."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

snappish, adj.
1 (of a person's manner or a remark) curt; ill-tempered; sharp.
2 (of a dog etc.) inclined to snap.

Derivative

snappishly adv. snappishness n.

THESAURUS

snappish

abrupt, acerbic, acid, bearish, bitchy, brusque, cankered, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, curt, cussed, disagreeable, dyspeptic, excitable, feisty, fractious, fretful, grouchy, gruff, hot-tempered, huffish, huffy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, mean, moody, morose, ornery, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, quick-tempered, sharp, short, short-tempered, snappy, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, surly, tart, temperamental, testy, touchy, ugly, ungracious, waspish

ROGET THESAURUS

snappish

Irascibility

N irascibility, irascibleness, temper, crossness, susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity, pugnacity, excitability, bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable, temper, genus irritabile, hot blood, ill humor, asperity, churlishness, huff, a word and a blow, Sir Fretful Plagiary, brabbler, Tartar, shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe, porcupine, spitfire, fire eater, fury, irascible, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, irritable, susceptible, excitable, thin-skinned, fretful, fidgety, on the fret, hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy, like touchwood, like tinder, huffy, pettish, petulant, waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, sudden and quick in quarrel, querulous, captious, moodish, quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious, pugnacious, cantankerous, exceptious, restiff, churlish, cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs, fractious, peevish, acari=atre, in a bad temper, sulky, angry, resentful, resentive, vindictive, Int, pish!, a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes, quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor, vino tortus et ira.