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antsy, a. colloq. and dial. (chiefly U.S.).|ˈæntsɪ|
Also 9 ancey.
[f. ants, pl. of ant (cf. the phr. to have ants in one's pants s.v. ant) + -y1.]
Agitated, impatient, restless; also, sexually eager. Also redupl. as antsy-pantsy.
1838in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1985) I. 71/2 Minard's talking & Peake's scribbling were enough to drive anyone ancey. 1950, etc. in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1985). 1962K. Topkins All Tea in China vi. 141 ‘Well, now, what seems to be the trouble?’ Daddy said. (That was what he always said to Marcie when she got antsy.) 1964Playboy Oct. 48/2 Fascinating to watch are Richard Burton as the seedy Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon, Sue Lyon as an antsy-pantsy teenager, [etc.]. 1971Last Whole Earth Catal. 123/3 Bert's rival, Norton, had been sucking on the laughing gas almost two minutes now, and Bert was getting antsy. 1972W. A. Nolen Surgeon's World xvi. 159 Her husband got antsy and asked me to have Tom Lewis see her in consultation. 1982Verbatim Autumn 14/2 Others who get my goat are antsy, crabby, pig-headed old buzzards. |