snatchier

They’re a bit scared of these seemingly mature females. They may “love” an especially attractive, outgoing one, but she’s probably interested, at a distance, in an older boy. So the “little boys” get tougher, clumsier, ruder and snatchier. It’s a splendid period of mutual rejection!

1959, Eric W. Johnson, How to Live Through Junior High School, Lippincott, page 189

Since it is unlikely that the GT will see any track time, the logic behind the massive and exotic stoppers on the car is unclear. Quite typical of such brakes, the pedal feel is snatchier than the conventional steel brakes found on the standard GT.

2007 January, Torque, issue, page 30

In view of these results, it might be assumed that emails show an even smaller occurrence of punctuation marks than linked text messages, as a logical conclusion of the analysis would be that sentence structures are again more complex in emails. Surprisingly, however, punctuation marks are five times more frequent in emails than in linked messages. Yet, considering the random example in (191), one can see that emails can even be snatchier in sentence style than single text messages: the email example consists of 83 words and 15 (fragmented) sentences, which corresponds to an average of 5.5 words per sentence.

2008, Linguistic Insights (ISSN 14248689), volume 58, Carmen Frehner, “Email – SMS – MMS: The Linguistic Creativity of Asynchronous Discourse in the New Media Age” (Peter Lang), page 133