Snappy

Definition: Snappy

Snappy

Adjective

1. Tending to speak irritably; "a snappish tone of voice".

2. Smart and fashionable; "snappy conversation"; "some sharp and whipping lines".

3. Pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather"; (`parky' is a British term).

4. Marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat".

5. Quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "snappy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Snappy

Crosswords: Snappy

Not only does he have a snappy, punchy prose style, not only does he treat his editor-in-chief with respect, but he is, in my forty years of experience, the fastest typist I have ever encountered. (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

Snappy Snapshots (1952)

Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Sing Snappy Songs (1923)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Mad's Al Jaffee Spews Out More Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions (reference)

• Snap! Snap! Buzz Buzz (Snappy Sounds) (reference)

• Snappy Little Christmas: Have the Best Christmas Ever! (reference)

• Snappy Little Colors: Discover a Rainbow of Colors (reference)

• Snappy Little Numbers: Count the Numbers from 1 to 10 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Happy Snappy Birthdays (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Po' Boy & Make It Snappy (reference)

• Po'Boy & Make It Snappy [IMPORT] (reference)

• Snappy (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Canon Snappy TX 35mm Camera Kit (reference)

• Canon Sure Shot Snappy LXII 35mm Camera (reference)

• Play Snappy 3.0 Deluxe (reference)

• Play Snappy V4.0 Light Version with No Performer Or Photodeluxe Sw (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "snappy": make it snappy ♦ snappy style ♦ snappy Video Snapshot ♦ snappy weather. Additional references.

Albanian

i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid), gojashpër (sharp tongued, snappish), energjik (abuzz, active, aggressive, busily, dapper, drastic, dynamic, eager, energetic, forceful, full of beans, get going, high-spirited, live, lively, peppy, punchy, pushing, rattling, stirring, sturdy, vigorous, vital, zippy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفاجئ (abrupt, at sea, flash, like a bolt from the blue, precipitate, sudden, surprised, surprising, swift, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked for, unpredicted), ‏لاذع (acerb, acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, bitterly, burning, caustic, cutting, harsh, hot, keen, mordant, nippy, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, rough, salty, sarcastic, savory, savoury, scathing, scorching, sharp, sharp tongued, smarting, snappish, spicy, spiteful, stinging, tart, waspish), ‏سريع (brisk, clipping, express, expressible, fast, feathered, fleet, flier, hasty, momentary, nippy, precipitate, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, ready, rife, smart, speed, speedy, swift), ‏بدون تفكير. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сприхав (breezy, combustible, hasty, high-spirited, hoity toity, hot tempered, hotheaded, irascible, irritable, peppery, petulant, quick tempered, short tempered, snappish, spicy, testy, violent, waxy), рязък (abrupt, acid, bitter, brief, brusque, curt, gravelly, hard, incisive, jarring, jerky, metallic, offhand, pipy, point blank, rapid, rude, sharp, short, short-spoken, shrill, snappish, snippy, stark, straight out, strident, trenchant), който хапе (biter, snappish), отривист (crisp, jerky, sharp), жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), енергичен (active, arduous, brisk, demon, driving, energetic, enterprising, firm, go-go, hearty, keen, live, nervous, pithy, pushing, red blooded, robust, sharp, smart, spanking, spicy, spirited, spunky, strong-minded, up and coming, vigorous, vital, youthful, zappy, zippy), елегантен (classy, dashing, debonair, doggy, dressy, elegant, feat, fine, genteel, graceful, jimp, mod, nifty, plush, plushy, posh, rakish, saucy, sharp, silk stocking, smart, stylish, swell, swish, tasty), пъргав (active, agile, alert, alive, deft, elastic, lissom, lithesome, lively, nifty, nimble, nippy, pretty, prompt, quick, ready, resilient, sinuous, smart, spring, spry, versatile, volatile, wanton, warm, whippy, zippy). (various references)

Chinese 

清脆. (various references)

Czech

výstižný (accurate, apt, cogent, felicitous), trefný (apt, fitting, incisive), ostrý (abrupt, acrid, acute, biting, crisp, ferocious, fierce, glib, hard, harsh, high pitched, hot, incisive, intense, keen, piercing, poignant, pointed, rigorous, sharp, shrill, smart, spicy, strident, tart, tough, trenchant), nevrlý (bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, crabbed, crusty, gruff, grumpy, ill tempered, morose, petulant, querulous, sour, splenetic, sullen, surly), kousavý (acerbic, acrid, barbed, bitchy, biting, caustic, cutting, dry, pointed, scathing, tart, vitriolic, waspish), elegantní (becoming, ciceronian, dapper, dashing, dressy, elegant, fashionable, full-fashioned, glamorous, glamourous, graceful, light-some, natty, neat, sleek, smart, sophisticated, Spruce, swanky, swell, trim). (various references)

Dutch

snibbig (abrasive, acrid, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, tard), bits (abrasive, acrid, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, tard). (various references)

Esperanto

akratona (abrasive, sharp-toned, shrill, tard). (various references)

Farsi 

گازگیر (Snappish), سرزنده (Alive, Animate, Live, Lively, Spirituous, Sprightly, Vivacious, Yare), جرقه دار, شیک (Chic, Dapper, Dinky, Scrumptious, Smart, Stylish, Suave, Swell, Trig), باروح (Airy, Allegro, Animate, Brisk, Fresh, Gaily, Lively, Peppery, Racy, Spunky). (various references)

French

sans réflexion, prompt, perçant, dynamique, brusque (sneak, snippy). (various references)

German

bissig (acrimonious, bitchy, currish, edgy, fierce, prickly, ratty, scathing, snappily, snappish, sour, vicious, waspish). (various references)

Greek 

ζωηρόσ (bobbish, bouncing, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, cheery, chipper, crisp, dapper, dashing, frisky, gay, grig, jaunty, lightsome, live, lively, lurid, mercurial, peppy, perky, poignant, quick, racy, rompish, smacking, smart, snappish, spanking, sparkish, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, volatile, zippy), δριμύσ (acrid, acrimonious, astringent, biting, caustic, hard, harsh, keen, poignant, pungent, scathing, severe, slashing, smart, snappish, tart, trenchant). (various references)

Hebrew 

מלא חיים (graphic, live, lively, racy, sprightly, spry, vibrant), � מרץ (dashing, definite, dynamic, energetic, forcible, keen, spirited, sturdy, tearing, trenchant, vigorous). (various references)

Hungarian

lendületes (animated, breezy, buoyant, dashing, energetic, follow-through, full of zip, have plenty of go, lively, to be full of go, zippy), harapós (acrimonious, cantankerous, snapper, snapping, snappish, spiky, venomous, vicious). (various references)

Icelandic

skrækur (abrasive, acrid, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, tard), skerandi (abrasive, acrid, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, tard), hvellur (abrasive, acrid, acrimonious, sharp-toned, shrill, tard). (various references)

Italian

sbrigante, elegante (chic, courtly, Dandy, dapper, delicate, dressy, elegant, elegantly, fine, graceful, natty, nifty, plush, polite, posh, sleek, smart, stylish), d'effetto, brillante (bright, brilliant, diamond, refulgent, refulgently, scintilating, shining, shiny, slick, smart, splendit, starry). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

刺々しい (harsh, sharp, stinging, thorny), 刺刺しい (harsh, sharp, stinging, thorny). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

と�'と�'しい (harsh, sharp, stinging, thorny). (various references)

Korean 

기운찬 (lively). (various references)

Manx

greimmagh (clutching, grasping, gripping, sticky), granganagh (cantankerous, captious, cattish, catty, churlish, crabbed, crabbed of person, crabby, cross, cross annoyed, cynical, disagreeable, fractious, fretful, grumpy, ill-humoured, ill-natured, ill-tempered, niggly person, peevish), feeacklagh (cogged, dental, dentate, indented, indented as leaf, jagged, serrated, stepped, toothed, toothlike, tusker). (various references)

Pig Latin

appysnay

Portuguese

resmungão (croaker, cross-patch, mumbler, nagger, snappish), mal-humorado (bad-tempered, cantankerous, choleric, crusty, glum, ill-humored, ill-humoured, ill-tempered, moody, mumpish, snappish, snotty, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, techy, testy, tetchy), maldisposto (chippy, fretful, grumpy, queasy, snappish, snippy, unwell, upstage), irritado (angry, huffish, huffy, peeved, pettish, resentful, roily, snappish, snotty, sore, techy, testy, tetchy, waxy), intratável (crab, crabbed, crabby, cross-grained, currish, fractious, intractable, kittle, restive, snappish, sullen, surly, unapproachable, uncompromising, unmanageable, unsociable), impertinente (arrogant, brash, cantankerous, currish, impertinent, mumpish, peevish, pernickety, pettish, petulant, querulous, rat, ratty, saucy, snappish, techy, testy, tetchy). (various references)

Romanian

vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, cheery, chirpy, crisp, full of beans, gamy, hasty, hoity toity, lightsome, lithe, live, lively, living, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, racy, Randy, ready, smart, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, vigorous, volatile), rece (apathetically, bleak, chill, chilly, cold, cold blooded, cold-hearted, coldly, cool, crisp, damp, dank, distant, freezingly, frigid, frosty, glacial, hard-hearted, icily, icy, immovable, impersonal, inhuman, nippy, reserved, stale, stiff, stony, wintery, wintry), picant (attractive, fruity, hot, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, racy, salt, Savory, savoury, spicy), energic (a live wire, active, alive, brisk, buoyant, dapper, drastic, dynamic, emphatic, energetic, energetically, forcible, full of beans, humming, iron, keen, lively, living, managing, mightily, peppy, peremptory, pushful, pushing, sharp, stout, stoutly, strenuous, strong, strong-minded, trenchant, virile), clonţos (sharp tongued, snappish, thick-billed), certãreţ (brawler, cantankerous, captious, discordant, eristic, factious, frumpish, peevish, pugnacious, quarrelsome), arţãgos (cantankerous, contradictious, crabbed, cross-grained, crusty, currish, fractious, gruff, peevish, pettish, quarrelsome). (various references)

Russian 

модный (cheesy, de rigueur, fancy, fashionable, hip, modish, new-fashioned, nifty, nobby, saucy, stylish, swanky, trendy, with it), живой (alive, animate, bouncy, boyish, breathing, breezy, brisk, cheery, chipper, chirp, chirpy, crisp, dashing, hands-on, high-colored, high-coloured, jazzy, jocund, live, lively, living, lusty, nimble, oomph, peppy, poignant, quick, rip-roaring, roaring, scintillating, skittish, sparky, spirited, sprightly, spry, vital, vivacious, vivid, zippy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pomodan (faddy, fashionable, modish, sharp, smart, stylish, trendy), elegantan (classy, dressy, elegant, fancy, gracious, smart, swank), žustar (agile, brisk, dashing, glowing, hot, lively, pert, smart, spry, spunky). (various references)

Spanish

rápido (agile, darting, express, express train, fast, fast train, fasting, fleeting, heel bar, live, lively, nippy, prompt, quick, quick fire, quick-firing, rapid, rapids, rathe, rattling, riffle, shoot, short, slapping, slashing, slick, spanking, speedy, swift, swift-flowing, twinkling), instantáneo (instant, instantaneous), enérgico (active, bold, brisk, dashing, determined, emphatic, energetic, forceful, forcible, forthright, hearty, high pressure, hot, lively, positive, powerful, pushful, spirited, sprightly, strenuous, strong, sturdy, telling, vigorous, vital, zippy), conciso (brief, concise, pithy, short). (various references)

Swedish

retlig (crabbed, fretful, fretting, ill tempered, irritable, Moody, peevish, pettish, snuffy, testy, touchy, waspish), piffig (jaunty, piquant, saucy), livlig (adroit, agile, alert, animate, animated, brisk, bubbly, buckish, high pitched, intense, keen, kittenish, lively, mercurial, mettlesome, nimble, pert, racy, rousing, vital, vivacious, volatile), knastrande (crackle, crackling, crepitation, crunch, crunchy), frisk (crisp, fresh, good, Hale, healthy, lively, lusty, smacking, sound, strong, sweet, well, whole), bitsk (ill tempered, savage). (various references)

Thai

คล่องแคล่ว (glib, lissom, lissome, lively, sleek, slick). (various references)

Turkish

yerinde (answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, calculated, condign, conformable, expedient, felicitous, fit, fitted, grandiloquent, in, in one's stead, in place, just, legitimate, on the premises, opportune, Pat, pertinent, pointed, pro-, proper, pursuant, rightful, sound, suitable, valid, well, well-judged), kıpır kıpır (beany, fidgety, humming, like a jack-in-the-box, restive, restless, restlessly), hazır (agreeable, at hand, available, content, cut and dried, disposed, finished, forthcoming, forward, game, go, handy, in the mood for, in train, officinal, on, on hand, on one's mettle, on tap, operational, prepared, present, prompt, quick, reach-me-down, ready, ready made, readymade, ripe, stand by, up for, willing), hızlı (crash, expeditious, express, fast, fastmoving, fleet, frequent, hasty, high speed, impetuous, light footed, nippy, precipitous, presto, quick, quick-action, rakish, rapid, ready, speed, speedy, swift, winged, zippy), canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy), şık (alternative, chic, choice, classy, dandyish, dapper, dashing, doggy, dressy, elegant, fashionable, flash, go-go, in the ton, jaunty, mod, nifty, posh, rakish, saucy, sharp, sleek, smart, smooth, smug, snazzy, spicy, spiffing, spiffy, sporty, streamlined, stylish, swagger, swanky, swell, swish, thoroughbred, tidy, tonish, trig, up-market), atik (agile, alert, lissom, lissome, nimble, quick), çabuk (apace, be quick, come, come on, early, expeditious, fast, hasty, hurry, hurry up, in double time, in good time, light footed, lissom, lissome, nimble, precipitous, presto, prompt, pronto, quick, quick-action, quickly, rapid, ready, sharp, soon, speedy, swift, swiftly). (various references)

Ukrainian

розумний (advisable, brainy, clever, intelligent, rational, reasonable, right-minded, sapient, sensible, sharp-sighted, sharp-witted, strong-minded, tenable, understanding, well advised, wise, witty), швидкий (agile, arrowy, dapper, double quick, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleeting, hasty, nippy, precipitate, present, prompt, quick, rapid, spanking, speedy, summary, swift, whipping, zippy), модний (cheesy, chic, dressy, fancy, fashionable, in wear, modish, nifty, passant, spiffing, stylish, swellish). (various references)

Vietnamese 

gắt gỏng (crossly, disagreeable, ill-tempered, snappish, surly, waspish). (various references)

Misspellings

"Snappy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sanpy, Sappi, sappo, slappy, snapp, snapy, sneepy, snipy, snupps. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: nappy, pansy, sappy.

-2 letters: naps, nays, pans, paps, pays, pyas, snap, span, spay, yaps.

-3 letters: any, asp, ays, nap, nay, pan, pap, pas, pay, pya, sap, say, spa, spy, syn, yap.

-4 letters: an, as, ay, na, pa, ya.

+2 letters: pansophy, playpens, snappily.

+3 letters: hypopneas, pattypans, polypneas, popinjays.

+4 letters: hyperpneas, paranymphs, sandpapery, snappishly.

+5 letters: hyperplanes, misapplying, prepayments, presynaptic, suppliantly, tryptophans, unstoppably.

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