shirty
[shur-tee]
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adjective, shirt·i·er, shirt·i·est. Informal.
bad-tempered; irritable; cranky.
Origin of shirty
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Historical Examples of shirty
"Don't you get shirty if I talks about that dream," he said.
Harding's luckE. [Edith] Nesbit
But don't tell me that when he saw how shirty she was about it, the chump didn't back down?
Right Ho, JeevesP. G. Wodehouse
He with the greatest propriety might call me "Johnny Newcome," yet it ill became me to call him "Shirty."
Of course, if she had been plain, he reflected gravely, one could understand her being so shirty.
Happy HouseBetsey Riddle, Freifrau von Hutten zum Stolzenberg
I called out loudly and angrily, 'Shirty, don't shoot him in the back!'
Emerson's Wife and Other Western StoriesFlorence Finch Kelly
shirty
adjective shirtier or shirtiest
Word Origin for shirty
C19: perhaps based on such phrases as to get someone's shirt out to annoy someone
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