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snipier

snipier is the comparative form of snipy.

snipier is the comparative form of snipey.

Meaning of snipy

Adjective

snipy (comparative snipier, superlative snipiest)

  1. Full of or attractive to snipe.
    • The wind was blowing almost a storm as we arrived at our first ground -- a good-sized lake, with broad moory flats, sprinkled with bulrushes and sedgy grass stretching down to the water's edge, and looking uncommonly snipy.1858, The New sporting magazine - Volume 35, page 85
  2. Long, narrow, and pointed.
    • The muzzle is strong and squared off, never snipy.1993, Pure-bred Dogs, American Kennel Gazette - Volume 110, page 146
  3. Prone to sniping.
    • On 16 December 1878 Marian went to court to prove the will, an ordeal which even the usually snipy George Simpson though she should have been spared.2001, Kathryn Hughes, George Eliot: The Last Victorian, →ISBN, page 330

Meaning of snipey

Adjective

snipey (comparative snipier, superlative snipiest)

  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.1897, Hugh Alexander Macpherson, A History of Fowling
  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.1998, Brian Plummer, The Fell Terrier, →ISBN, page 30
  3. Having a tendency to snipe; given to nasty or cutting comments.
    • You don't have to be so snipey, you know.2001, Penelope Miller, Yesterday's Sorrow, →ISBN, page 181

Questions about snipier

What is snipier the comparative form of?
Snipier is the comparative form of snipy.

Words near snipier in the dictionary

  1. snipers
  2. sniperscope
  3. sniperscopes
  4. snipes
  5. snipey
  6. snipier
  7. snipiest
  8. snipiness
  9. sniping
  10. snipingly
  11. snipings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snipier (page history and authors); snipy (page history and authors); snipey (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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