snappish, snappy
(adjective) apt to speak irritably; “a snappish tone of voice”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
snappish (comparative more snappish, superlative most snappish)
Likely to snap or bite.
Exhibiting irritation or impatience; curt; irascible.
Source: Wiktionary
Snap"pish, a.
1. Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.
2. Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish. The taunting address of a snappish missanthrope. Jeffrey.
– Snap"pish*ly, adv.
– Snap"pish*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 January 2025
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
