Sentence:  There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp <WSD>snappings</WSD> at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The act of snapping at, or speaking sharply to, somebody.