snipey

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Full of or attractive to snipe.
    — The fowler wends his way at dusk to some favourite "snipey" spot, and beats the ground while he carries the net about three feet off the earth.
  2. Resembling the bill of a snipe; long, thin, and pointed; beaky;
    — Curiously, some of the best fox-killers I have encountered lacked the bull terrier heads of the type bred by Breay, and some were decidedly mousy in appearance, with narrow, snipey jaws.
  3. Having a tendency to snipe; given to nasty or cutting comments.
    — You don't have to be so snipey, you know.

词形变化

snipier comparative snipiest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
snipiness

词源

From snipe + -y.
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