a. [f. SNARL sb.2 or v.2] Somewhat snarly or ill-tempered.
1819. Pantologia, VII. s.v. Menippus, He wrote some snarlish satires, for which reason writings of that stamp have been sometimes called Menippean.
1848. Mozley, Ess. (1878), I. 376. This excellent Henry accuses me … of being snarlish and quarrelsome.
1893. Cozens-Hardy, Broad Norf., 12. A snarlish fellow weak in the head.
