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
   • To all this I agreed, and having borrowed a gun from one of my Rifle Officer friends, and a good stock of ammunition, I joined my two new friends at funfire in the morning, and after driving about 6 miles, I saw some very snipy-looking fields, got down, my companions promising to call for me about...1897, John Tyndall, Pioneer Planter, Voyager and Explorer, page 20
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