Hypertext Webster Gateway: "snappishness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Snappish \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 misanthrope.
--Jeffrey.
-- {Snap"pish*ly}, adv. -- {Snap"pish*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
snappishness
n : a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was
well known to all his employees" [syn: {temper}, {biliousness},
{irritability}, {peevishness}, {pettishness}, {surliness}]
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