snippy

Example Sentences

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He was not accorded this privilege, but was sent out with a boy nicknamed "Snippy".

From The Trail of the Tramp by Livingston, Leon Ray

Go back to your goose, Snippy; you never were made for this work.

From Doctor Thorne by Trollope, Anthony

Just love, love to mother, and love to father, and Snippy and Peg, an' good-bye to 'em all, an' how he was glad to die for England.

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth

Plainly Snippy Brown was fairly crying to be raided.

From Sunny Slopes by Hueston, Ethel