What's the difference between knappish and snappish?
Knappish
Definition:
(a.) Snappish; peevish.
Example Sentences:
Snappish
Definition:
(a.) Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.
(a.) Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those who only see him on the pitch know him by his stage persona: this incredibly competitive, snappish and possibly slightly mad striker.
(2) It won the James Tait Black Prize, but was still received by some critics as almost hurtfully factual: the tone snappish, the refusal to flirt with the reader's expectations of personality taken as a snub.
(3) In a snappish exchange at the White House, the media responded.