sniptious

Wego sometimes, for the more sprightly and "sniptious" Ego.

Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter Orville Dewey 1838

Couldn't yer come an 'stop wid me, or isn't my house sniptious' nuff? "

Iola Leroy, Or Shadows Uplifted. 1892

"My skin!" cried the man driving, a youngish man, of sharp, but not unkindly eyes, "thar's a sniptious gal.

The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877