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Meaning of "snippily" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SNIPPILY

snippily  [ˈsnɪpɪlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SNIPPILY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Snippily is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES SNIPPILY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of snippily in the English dictionary

The definition of snippily in the dictionary is in a bad-tempered or brusque manner.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SNIPPILY


creepily
ˈkriːpɪlɪ
crispily
ˈkrɪspɪlɪ
drippily
ˈdrɪpɪlɪ
droopily
ˈdruːpɪlɪ
frumpily
ˈfrʌmpɪlɪ
grumpily
ˈɡrʌmpɪlɪ
happily
ˈhæpɪlɪ
jumpily
ˈdʒʌmpɪlɪ
lilly-pilly
ˈlɪlɪˌpɪlɪ
lumpily
ˈlʌmpɪlɪ
nippily
ˈnɪpɪlɪ
pillie
ˈpɪlɪ
pulpily
ˈpʌlpɪlɪ
ropily
ˈrəʊpɪlɪ
skimpily
ˈskɪmpɪlɪ
sleepily
ˈsliːpɪlɪ
slippily
ˈslɪpɪlɪ
sloppily
ˈslɒpɪlɪ
snappily
ˈsnæpɪlɪ
unhappily
ʌnˈhæpɪlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SNIPPILY

snipe
snipe fly
snipefish
snipelike
sniper
sniperscope
sniping
snipped
snipper
snippersnapper
snippet
snippetiness
snippety
snippier
snippiest
snippiness
snipping
snippy
snips
snipy

WORDS THAT END LIKE SNIPPILY

bumpily
chirpily
choppily
croupily
dopily
floppily
glumpily
loopily
peppily
pily
preppily
roupily
sappily
scrappily
scrimpily
snoopily
soppily
stroppily
stumpily
waspily

Synonyms and antonyms of snippily in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «snippily» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SNIPPILY

Find out the translation of snippily to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of snippily from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «snippily» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

snippily
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

snippily
570 millions of speakers

English

snippily
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

snippily
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

snippily
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

snippily
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

snippily
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

snippily
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

snippily
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lembik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schnippisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

snippily
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

snippily
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Snippily
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

snippily
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

snippily
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हळूवारपणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

snippily
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

snippily
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

snippily
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

snippily
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

snippily
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

snippily
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

snippily
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

snippily
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

snippily
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of snippily

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SNIPPILY»

The term «snippily» is used very little and occupies the 191.127 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SNIPPILY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «snippily» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «snippily» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about snippily

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SNIPPILY»

Discover the use of snippily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to snippily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Enclave
He added snippily, aparently addressing Kane, though it was impossible to tell which direction his eyeless head was facing. “And that's just a name created by you humans,” Brakus continued, snippily. “Your rediculous vocal arrangement is  ...
David Roscoe, 2011
2
Wholuvsya
(I can type snippily much faster than I can write snippily.) S0,. . ., at this point, I'm gonna try some stuff and I may get back to ya', so I may just slam this to the postman and hold my breath. We will meet again. March 1, 1990 Boy, you're in big ...
Alfred Riggs, 2003
3
A Dark-Adapted Eye
Like most families, they had their secrets.
Barbara Vine, 2009
4
The Green Book Magazine
... her rather snippily. Realizing that there is something standing in the way of the proposal of the young man in whom she is take matters into her own hands and Jeanne Eagels in "The II 'onderful Thing." Jeanne Eagels and Gordon Ash in The  ...
‎1920
5
The Edison Monthly
Then snippily she turned away And left poor James lamenting. L'Envoi. When later she had learned some things, It really made her dizzy, And right away she phoned to him, But Jimmie, he was busy. W J Lampton STREET lighting in Yonkers ...
‎1913
6
Photoplay: The Aristocrat of Motion Picture Magazines
She looked at me snippily, and asked for my name. I said, "Please tell her her niece, Betty Marshall, is here." The girl came back in a minute, and in a very much pleasanter way, took my suit case. A fine-looking gray -haired woman came ...
‎1917
7
Outing; Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction
You don't know what it is until you have seen it. For weeks beforehand each person you meet says: “Are you going to the Jinks?” Wives and virgins ask it snippily; they are not allowed to attend. It is, like most truly artistic incidents, a stag affair.
‎1904
8
Retail Clerks International Advocate
For some reason the minute you put a flfteen-dollar-a-week girl behind a counter she acquires a million dollars' worth of hauteur — an inferiority complex, perhaps. If you ask for something much worn week before last you are snippily informed, ...
‎1922
9
The Greater Glory
You never let it show when I came around so snippily, throwing your poverty in your face; taunting you with the load you were under ; showing how base and contemptible I was and how low I had fallen. If you'd only done it, Mary, if you only  ...
William Dudley Pelley, 1919
10
Outing
You don't know what it is until you have seen it. For weeks beforehand each person you meet says: "Are you going to the Jinks?" Wives and virgins ask it snippily; they are not allowed to attend. It is, like most truly artistic incidents, a stag affair.
‎1904

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SNIPPILY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term snippily is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Editor's column: 16 GOP candidates and 16 months till the '16 election
Gore took it with much better humor than his aides, who had snippily asked in advance of the meeting, “Do you have Evian out there?” Later that year, I moved ... «Glenwood Springs Post Independent, Jul 15»
2
The Little Crane and The Long Journey
... loose as the three ducklings and play off each other with suitably sassy, snobby, and otherwise snippily-quacking moments and duck-footed comical business. «DC Theatre Scene, Jul 15»
3
Greenman: De Blasio outright blasting Cuomo is a big risk for New …
When de Blasio put forward a plan to build housing at Queens' Sunnyside Yards — a goal Cuomo should have been able to work with — Cuomo snippily ... «New York Daily News, Jun 15»
4
Sepp Blatter to resign as Fifa president – as it happened
Not one. The Qatar Football Association also replied snippily to claims by English FA chairman Greg Dyke that they would be having a sleepless night after the ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
5
You don't have to trust Alex Rodriguez. Nothing requires you to do …
And even he doesn't just snippily assume that it's because Rodriguez is back on drugs. Sure, he raises the subject, but concludes: I have to assume Rodriguez ... «NBCSports.com, Apr 15»
6
8 ways to be everyone's favorite coworker
... passive-aggressive response with a forced smiley face (smileys don't actually make a snippily delivered message any less snippy, FYI). Instead, become that ... «Mashable, Apr 15»
7
Greece had a chance to make the euro zone work better -- they blew it
Indeed, earlier this month, when the minister visited the ECB in Frankfurt, Mario Draghi, its president, snippily told him to keep his opinion to himself. He has not ... «Business Insider Australia, Feb 15»
8
Richard III, Wales Millennium Centre
But too quickly the audience is up again, being snippily ushered by cast members to half-see a scene that has started without them. Mairi Phillips puts in an ... «The Arts Desk, Feb 15»
9
What Dan Patrick's First Big Mistake Says About Him—and the Senate
But Patrick snippily declined to answer, and took the reporter to task for asking a question that wasn't about the budget. Predictably, the open carry guys went ... «The Texas Observer, Feb 15»
10
Knicks end 2014 with a loss to no surprise as LA Clippers dominate
... 30 minutes after the game ended — at least twice as long as normal — although he snippily insisted he did not meet with Jackson following this latest loss. «New York Daily News, Jan 15»

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