shirty

shirt·y

S0351200 (shûr′tē)adj. shirt·i·er, shirt·i·est Chiefly British Ill-tempered; angry: "He saw how shirty she was about it" (P.G. Wodehouse).

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[Probably from to get someone's shirt out, to annoy, or to keep one's shirt on, to keep from being annoyed.]

shirty

(ˈʃɜːtɪ) adj, shirtier or shirtiestslang chiefly Brit bad-tempered or annoyed[C19: perhaps based on such phrases as to get someone's shirt out to annoy someone] ˈshirtily adv ˈshirtiness n

shirt•y

(ˈʃɜr ti)

adj. shirt•i•er, shirt•i•est. short-tempered; irritable.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

shirty - (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyedsnortycolloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speechBritain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdomill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition

Translations

发怒的

shirty

(ˈʃəːti) adjective angry; bad-tempered. He was a bit shirty with her when she arrived late. 易怒的 发怒的