cantankerous vs snippety

cantankerous

adj
  • Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby. 

snippety

adj
  • Irritable (particularly in a condescending way), snippy. 

  • Made up of short snippets. 

How often have the words cantankerous and snippety occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )