snippy

The plural of the simple Webster's Third word SNIPPINESS.

Edited by Zeid Nasser By Rob PegoraroThe Microsoft-Yahoo soap opera seems to have reached its last episode: After months of squabbling and snippiness, last weekend Microsoft yanked back its purchase offer, ending its bid to buy Yahoo.

As the authors' early "students of English Literature" comments indicate, there is a generally sublimated snippiness to the tone of the Handbook, a snippiness that can bubble into explicit carping about "very scholarly but untheatrical approach[es]" to drama (19).

7 in this series, which explains his occasional snippiness.

As a result, there's more than the usual amount of snippiness when one talks about the other.