Sc. [Cf. MDa. snap quick, smart.] Quick; smart; sharp.
Jamieson’s Sc. Dict. (1882), also gives: ‘short-tempered, surly’: ‘brittle, short-grained, crisp’; these senses may be derived from SNAP v.
1790. Shirrefs, Poems, 352. She is a lass fu’ snap To grant her patronage.
a. 1796. Burns, Poem Pastoral Poetry, ix. Nae snap conceits, but that sweet spell O’ witchin’ love.
