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Snitty is the adjective for someone in a snit: about something small, and letting it leak into how they talk to you. It covers both halves at once — the mood itself (he's being snitty today) and the behaviour it produces (a snitty email, a snitty little comment about the deadline). Like snit, the judgement is built in: calling a remark snitty says you find the out of proportion, and slightly childish. It is informal, mostly American, and it turns up a lot in offices and in reporting, where a snitty reply is one that is technically polite but clearly sulking underneath. It sits very close to snippy, and in everyday use many speakers treat them as the same. If you want the fine difference: snippy points at the sharp short way the words come out, while snitty points back at the sulky mood behind them. Both are mild. Neither is something you would write in a formal report — you would say curt or there instead.
鬧彆扭的、沒好氣的、帶著情緒的。指人在為小事賭氣,而且那個情緒滲進了講話或寫信的口氣裡(a snitty email 就是「一封語氣很不爽的信」)。偏美式口語,語氣不重但帶貶意。
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
snittyadj
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informalAgitated; annoyed.
- There's no point getting snitty about the weather.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。