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snatchy

adj
/ˈsnæt͡ʃi/

Etymology

From snatch + -y.

  1. inherited from *snakjaną✻ — “to whiff, sniff, catch wind of; to taste-test, nibble”
  2. inherited from *snakkjan✻
  3. inherited from *snæċċan✻
  4. inherited from snacchen
  5. suffixed as snatchy — “snatch + y”

Definitions

  1. In snatches or glimpses.

    • We listen to a snatchy talk on one thing and then another, and abstruse questions that are like the Scotchman's definition of metaphysics.
    • The long-desired vision came first to Peter in Galilee in the morning twilight, and something of the kind perhaps happened to others; but of all this we have only garbled and snatchy reports.
    • In positioning the branches, remember that the foliage should be arranged to give snatchy views of the two trunks all the way to the top.

  2. Resembling or characteristic of a snatching or grabbing.

    • a snatchy gesture

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for snatchy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA