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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.
  • “She was a little snippy snitch,” Mickey said. — Elmore Leonard, Switch, p. 158, 1978
  • Sir, you have no call to get snippy with me. — Fargo, 1996
  • I sat up and narrowed my eyes at him. “No need to get snippy about it.” “Men don’t get snippy,” Morelli said. “Men get pissed. Women get snippy.” — Janet Evanovich, Seven Up, p. 105, 2001
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