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snitchy

adj

Etymology

From snitch + -y.

  1. inherited from snīcan — “to creep; crawl”
  2. inherited from sniken
  3. inherited from snacche — “a trap, snare”
  4. suffixed as snitchy — “snitch + y”

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of snitches or snitching

    Characteristic of snitches or snitching; tell-tale

    • The SchoolBooks were the snitchiest technology of them all, logging every keystroke, watching all the network traffic for suspicious keywords, counting every click, keeping track of every fleeting thought you put out over the net.

  2. Irritable

    Irritable; ill-tempered

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for snitchy. 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