snappish

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Likely to snap or bite.
    — A snappish cur
  2. Exhibiting irritation or impatience; curt; irascible.
    — The past fortnight had been one of sullenness, cold black looks, short snappish words, and those ingenious contradictions which sometimes vary the halcyon calm of domestic felicity.

词形变化

more snappish comparative most snappish superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
snappishly snappishness

词源

Etymology tree
Middle Dutch snappen
Dutch snappenbor.
Low German snappenbor.
English snap
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English snappish
From snap + -ish.
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