different between fractious vs snappish

English

fraction (“discord, (now obsolete)”) +? -ous

fractious (comparative more fractious, superlative most fractious)

Given to troublemaking.
Irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Smith, Elder & Company, London, page 228,
  …in his present fractious mood, she dared whisper no observations, nor ask of him any information.

snap +? -ish.

snappish (comparative more snappish, superlative most snappish)

Likely to snap or bite.
A snappish cur
- 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty Chapter 22[1]
  "She came to us snappish and suspicious, but when she found what sort of place ours was, it all went off by degrees
Exhibiting irritation or impatience; curt; irascible.
- 1990, Nora Roberts, Taming Natasha, Silhouette Books (2011), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:
  She heard her own voice, snappish and rude, and pressed a hand to her head.
- 2011, Lynne McTaggart, The Bond, Simon & Schuster (2011), ?ISBN, page 91:
  Even though the woman didn't work closely with Barsade, so palpable was her complaining and snappish temperament that it had infected everyone who worked around her.
- 2011, Mary Doria Russell, Doc, Random House (2011), ?ISBN, page 173:
  There was something underneath her snappish belligerence that made him feel protective and tolerant.

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