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Cranky vs Snappish - What's the difference?

cranky | snappish |

As adjectives the difference between cranky and snappish

is that cranky is (obsolete) weak, unwell while snappish is likely to snap or bite.

cranky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (obsolete) Weak, unwell.
  • Not in good working condition; shaky.
  • * 1914 , '', ''The River of Doubt ,
    • We had seven canoes, all of them dugouts. One was small, one was cranky , and two were old, waterlogged, and leaky. The other three were good.
  • Grouchy, irritable; easily upset.
    • He got home from a long day at work tired and cranky .
  • Not in perfect mental working order; eccentric, peculiar.
  • * 1934 December, ,
    • Uncle Esau is as cranky as hell, and a peculiar old duck, but I think he'll like a fine upstanding young man as big as you be.
  • (archaic) Full of spirit; spirited.

    • snappish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Likely to snap or bite.
    • A snappish cur
  • *1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 22[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/22]
  • *:"She came to us snappish and suspicious, but when she found what sort of place ours was, it all went off by degrees
  • Exhibiting irritation or impatience; curt; irascible.
  • * 1990 , Nora Roberts, Taming Natasha , Silhouette Books (2011), ISBN 9781459213173, unnumbered page:
    • She heard her own voice, snappish and rude, and pressed a hand to her head.
  • * 2011 , Lynne McTaggart, The Bond , Simon & Schuster (2011), ISBN 9781439157947, page 91:
    • Even though the woman didn't work closely with Barsade, so palpable was her complaining and snappish temperament that it had infected everyone who worked around her.
  • * 2011 , Mary Doria Russell, Doc , Random House (2011), ISBN 9781400068043, page 173:
    • There was something underneath her snappish belligerence that made him feel protective and tolerant.

    Derived terms

    * snappishly * snappishness