Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a snipe; snipe-like; scolopacine; having a long pointed nose like a snipe's bill.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like a snipe.
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Examples
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OK, not to be snipy or whiny, I'm going to start keeping track of the number of hours (or days) it takes Greg and Eric to post an Obama super-delegate endorsement vs. a Clinton super endorsement.
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But I will not tolerate a bunch of snipy nastiness — I have not had nearly enough sleep for it, and my exhaustion is like to make me snappish any moment now.
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He is strongly but not clumsily built, short-coupled, with none of the snipy speedy range of the valley animal.
The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909
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He is strongly but not clumsily built, short-coupled, with none of the snipy speedy range of the valley animal.
The Mountains 1904
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Defects -- A very flat skull, narrow across the top; excess of dome, eyes small, sharp and terrierlike, or prominent and protruding; muzzle long, snipy or cut away decidedly below the eyes, or very short.
unknown title 2009
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The dark muzzle is just moderately full as opposed to snipy.
unknown title 2009
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On the sides it tapers gradually and smoothly from the ears to the end of the black nose, without being flared out in backskull (cheeky) or pinched in muzzle (snipy).
unknown title 2009
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Faults Muzzle either too snipy or too coarse; muzzle too short or too long.
unknown title 2009
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"colleagues criticize so and so" hit piece or just snipy gossip piece.
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8. The reporters all want Obama to make the sort of inaccurate, snide, snipy comments that the Clintons are now firing off daily.
Archive 2008-03-01 Stephen Retherford 2008
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