snappy – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of snappy

Adjective: snappy

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativesnappier
Superlativesnappiest

Perifrastic

Sample Sentences

  • a snappy response
  • Make it snappy! (Hurry up!)
  • You're snappy this morning; did you not sleep well?
  • She, Ellen, was sorry she had spoken so sharp-like to the girl, but after all it wasn’t wonderful that she had been snappy. [1913, Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger:]
  • Here he is, looking snappy in his brand-new suit.
  • The niftiest, snappiest slacks you ever saw! [1933, Stella Blum, Everyday Fashion of the Thirties as pictured in Sears Catalogs, published 1986, page 56:]
  • snappy weather; snappy pace; snappy rejoinder
  • The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…]. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • a snappy dog
  • These spring-loaded seats are a bit harder and very snappy when you get off them. [2023 April 19, Pip Dunn, “Jack of all trades... and master of most”, in RAIL, number 981, page 56:]
  • a snappy motto
  • I should warn the busy reader, however, that the after-dinner mint of Felix Finch is merely the aperitif of my own peripatetic tribulations. The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish, if you will. Now that is a snappy title. [2004, David Mitchell, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, pages 146-147:]

Adjectives inflected like snappy

syrupy, seemly, seggsy, snuffy, snippy, snitty, sniffy, snotty, snouty, snobby, snoozy, snooty, snazzy, snappy, snarky, snarly, snassy, snaily, snacky, snaggy, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Middle Dutch snappen
3. Dutch snappenbor.
4. Low German snappenbor.
5. English snap
6. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
7. Proto-Germanic *-gaz
8. Proto-West Germanic *-g
9. Old English -iġ
10. Middle English -y
11. English -y
12. English snappy
13. From snap + -y.