different between slippy vs snippy

slippy

English

Etymology

From slip +? -y. Compare Old English slipi? (slippy, slimy, viscid).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?sl?pi/
  • Rhymes: -?pi

Adjective

slippy (comparative slippier, superlative slippiest)

  1. (slightly informal) Slippery.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13
      It was darker now and there were stones and bits of wood on the strand and slippy seaweed.
  2. (dialect, dated) Spry, nimble.
    • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 5
      Well, come on then, let's look slippy.

Derived terms

  • slippy map

Anagrams

  • Lippys

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snippy

English

Etymology

From snip +? -y. Compare Saterland Frisian snippich (short, brief, blunt), German schnippisch.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -?pi

Adjective

snippy (comparative snippier, superlative snippiest)

  1. fragmentary; snipped.
  2. irritable; impatient; short-tempered.
  3. stingy.

Anagrams

  • Nippys

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