词组 | snippy |
释义 | snippy adjective impatient; argumentative US, 1848 Originally used in the UK to mean “parsimonious” (C18), and then in the US (C19) in the current sense. The term enjoyed a brief moment of fame in the early morning hours of 9 November 2000, when US Vice President Al Gore told future President George Bush, “You don’t have to get snippy with me” as he retracted a concession made several minutes earlier.
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