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ˈsnappishness
[f. snappish a.]
The fact or quality of being snappish; sharpness, curtness, or peevishness of language or speech.
1598Florio, Proteruità, frowardnes,..skittishnes, snappishnes. 1727Bailey (vol. II), Snappishness, Crossness, Peevishness, Crabbedness in Speech. 1757Rutty Spiritual Diary (1776) 2nd month, no. 26, Cursed snappishness,..on a bodily indisposition. a1801Wakefield Mem. (1804) I. 25 He threatened with great snappishness to flog me. 1836Hook G. Gurney III. 174 The cause of my old lady's snappishness to-night. 1876M. E. Braddon J. Haggard's Dau. xi, A little extra snappishness on the part of Judith. |
