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med_cat
August 30th, 2019, 10:03 pm

Friday word: Sniptious

sniptious, adj.
snip·tious | \ ˈsnipshəs\

chiefly dialectal
: attractive, smart, fine

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adjective, dialect, s, wordsmith: med_cat

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