SNAPPISHLY • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Snappishly

... said Diggle, snappishly. "I mean the one that's just gone off in the circus. Simply unendurable. The whole street outside my business premises in confusion. I opened my window to look out, and that man pointed me out with his whip and said to the girl ...

— If Winter Don't - A B C D E F Notsomuchinson • Barry Pain

... else. There was another word underneath which I think was alum, that's English, isn't it?" This is intended as a kind of parting shot in a contest during which he has been slightly uncomfortable. The chief answers rather snappishly, "No! that's Latin. I must tell you that at the time so many of the finest fiddles were made the use of Latin was very fashionable, being used much on monumental decorations, signatures to works of art generally, down to the prescriptions of doctors, which we have ...

— The Repairing & Restoration of Violins - 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. • Horace Petherick