Crossword clues for shirty
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shirty
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Jack didn't like it and he was a bit shirty with Maurice.
▪ Laughing boys ... or getting shirty?
▪ There are lots of shirty assertions about independence, few actively demonstrated.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shirty
"ill-tempered," 1846, slang, probably from shirt (n.) + -y (2), on notion of being disheveled in anger.
Wiktionary
shirty
a. (context informal English) ill-tempered or annoyed.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Shirty
Shirty may mean:
- Aggressive or bad-tempered, in British and Australian English. Example: "I have developed an elevated shirty disposition due to the construction noise below my office."
- Shirty: The Slightly Aggressive Bear, a popular character from Australian TV series The Late Show
Usage examples of "shirty".
Sam got quite shirty about the jokes the coppers made, which I thought was stupid since they were no worse than the sort of rubbish he commissions every day.
True, I had forced him to climb down, quelling him, as described, with the quiet strength of my personality, but I was still a trifle shirty at his having brought the thing up at all.
Sapper, Creepy, Sleazy, Doper, Droopy, Dumpy, Shirty, Groupie, Greasy, Dreary, Shitful, Crock, and Baksheesh.
The Cabinet were very shirty and reading between the lines told him that it was us that pulled the coals out of the fire.