adjective. Likely to snap or bite, as a dog.

adjective. Irritable and curt.

Ready or apt to snap or bite: as, a snappish cur.

Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or tartly; tart; crabbed; also, proceeding from a sharp temper or from anger; also, chiding; scolding; faultfinding.

Synonyms Touchy, testy, crusty, petulant, pettish, splenetic.

adjective. Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite.

adjective. Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish.

adjective. Likely to snap or bite.

adjective. Exhibiting irritation or impatience; curt; irascible.

adjective. apt to speak irritably

"Messrs. Davidson and Slocum were on the point of resolving their perplexity into wrath, as they went down the great stone stairway to the waiting carriage, but Mr. Crockett, the testy and snappish, muttered ecstatically: The son of a gun!"

ill-natured  

snappishly  snappishness  

captious  choleric  crossgrained  dim-sighted  discourteous  

abrupt  acerbic  acid  bearish  bitchy