Adjective

(er)

(label) Rapid and without delay.

(=hurry up)

(label) Irritable.

(label) Tidy; well-dressed; sharp.

Chilly, brisk, sharp.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:

Adjective

(er)

Resembling a slap, especially of sound.

* 1855 , Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

*:Where the laughing-gull scoots by the slappy shore and laughs her near-human laugh

* 1963 , Delphin Rose Adsett, A magpie sings

*:Katy thought about the damp yellow bodies which often landed, with a slappy sound in a burst of moisture and steam rose off them because they were parted from the warmth of their mothers.

* 1998 , Dan Gelo, Fiddle Tunes & Irish Music for Mandolin - Page 11

Thin picks flex too much and make your wrist work overtime, plus they tend to produce a slappy tone. Those heavy picks popular with today's bluegrass mandolinists are really too stiff for playing the rapid triplets in some Irish tunes.

* 2009 , Elisabeth Hyde, In the Heart of the Canyon - Page 55

Jill had Mark apply sunscreen to her back.

*:"Bet these river guides get a lot of skin cancer", he said. He had a slappy , unpleasant way of doing it, and she struggled to keep her balance.