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snapping

noun B2
  1. The sound or action of a snap.
  2. The act of snapping at, or speaking sharply to, somebody.

Plural snappings

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A DOG lay in a manger, and by his growling and snapping prevented the oxen from eating the hay which had been placed for them.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 11 · B2
Snapping away with a camera when he ought to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 6 · B2
Miss Josephine Barry, thin, prim, and rigid, was knitting fiercely by the fire, her wrath quite unappeased and her eyes snapping through her gold-rimmed glasses.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 155 · C1
Marilla, as she picked her steps along the damp lane, thought that it was really a satisfaction to know that she was going home to a briskly snapping wood fire and a table nicely spread for tea, instead of to the cold comfort of old Aid meeting evenings before Anne had come to Green Gables.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 210 · C1

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