A new favorite word

The other day, a friend of mine wrote in an email that she was in a particularly "snarky" mood. I've been living on this earth for going on 34 years, and I consider myself a rather literate person with a fairly large vocabulary. But until a few weeks ago, I seriously had never uttered this word. Once I looked up the meaning, I was even more amazed. Because it perfectly describes my demeanor on many days.

snark·y: adj. Slang snark·i·er, snark·i·est
Irritable or short-tempered; irascible.

And now I have yet another word to incorporate into my existence: irascible.

Hey, honey, wanna Scrabble rematch?

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Brianne said…

You should start doing a word of the day thing. That would be fun. I think I'm going to steal the word snarky from you and start using it to confuse people. :) That and irascible. Sometimes, when I'm bored, I like to read the dictionary or thesaurus. I know - weird. But Brett does it too!

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