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Definition of Snipy
1. a. Like a snipe.
Definition of Snipy
1. snipe-beaked [adj SNIPIER, SNIPIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snipy
Literary usage of Snipy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Dog Book by William Arthur Bruette (1921)
"bench-show advocates deplore the fact that the type of setter developed by field
trials has lost the old square muzzle and become what they term snipy- ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1907)
"Altogether he is greatly to be preferred to the long-legged snipy-faced terrier
that Reinagle has sketched (fig. 5). While the foxhound has been bred so ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1861)
"... snipy face and a keen traut: eye. A stoop in the batk and i bend in the knees
would hire giren the impression of ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"... The Scottish has snipe, a sarcasm ; snipy, tin in speech. Moor. SNIPE-KNAVE.
A worthless fellow. ..."
5. Modern Short-stories by Margaret Ashmun (1914)
""What is it, snipy?" asked the other. "Got the blues again ?" "No, I ain't," said
the seedy one, sniffing again. "But I don't like your talk. ..."
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