snippy , auch: snippety

Why do they get so snippy when I say that?

Too much for the snippy tone of voice he was using with her.

If she wanted to be snippy and superior, I could play that game, too.

We must wish him luck, and not be too snippy about it.

But there's no need to be snippy, or even competitive, about it.

If he admitted he'd forgotten her name she'd just get all snippy again.

"You best not get too snippy with me, boy," she said.

Hanging up the phone when one feels "snippy" is back.

The snippy flight attendant appeared next to me a moment later.

When I was a child, my pediatrician had a snippy nurse.

We could have gotten snippy, and there were a few interesting exchanges.

I took the trouble to find that out from Michael, though he was snippy about it."

There was a snippy little hiss from inside the bottle.

In this reunion special, the original 15 designers get snippy.

And he wouldn't get snippy at them when they merely told him the truth.

"You can sure be a snippy woman, on occasion," I said.

She had too much to do to worry about Kate's snippy temperament.

Q. The vice president has described you as snippy in that conversation.

Clara might be snippy, but she wasn't ready to fight back hard yet.

They are not at all the snippy, competitive campers of my memory.

This called for snippy remarks from all the Adams experts in the media.

I'd never heard Margaret sound so snippy, but she was tired, and probably out of sorts.

No reason to get snippy just because you muddled the job."

Grant wondered if he'd ever been accused of being "snippy" before.

So don't get snippy with me over what your own first link amounts to.