snappish

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Example sentences

With a reputation for patience, he is snappish aud vindictive.

Taut nerves make the leaders snappish as they scurry about, pausing in little

clots of prayer, then bustling to their tasks.

Nevertheless they tease and worry, poke and tickle the animal continually, so

that he is surly and snappish.

Overworked, snappish and ragtag, they are weary and wan.

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Matching Quote

"If it is not a tragical life we live, then I know not what to call it. Such a story as that of Jesus Christ,—the history of Jerusalem, say, being a part of the Universal History. The naked, the embalmed, unburied death of Jerusalem amid its desolate hills,—think of it. In Tasso's poem I trust some things are sweetly buried. Consider the snappish tenacity with which they preach Christianity still. What are time and space to Christianity, eighteen hundred years, and a new world?—that the humble life of a Jewish peasant should have force to make a New York bishop so bigoted. Forty-four lamps, the gift of kings, now burning in a place called the Holy Sepulchre; a church-bell ringing; some unaffected tears shed by a pilgrim on Mount Calvary within the week."

-Henry David Thoreau