snippety
Adjective

snippety

  1. Made up of short snippets.
  2. Irritable (particularly in a condescending way), snippy.
    • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 24, p. 164,
      “He tole that little snippity nurse of his’n to give me ten dollars and make me sign a ‘paid in full’ receipt […] ”



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