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Ill-tempered (informal)
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shirty
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"ill-tempered," 1846, slang, probably from shirt (n.) + -y (2), on notion of being disheveled in anger.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed [syn: snorty ] [also: shirtiest , shirtier ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context informal English) ill-tempered or annoyed.
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.