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shirt·y
(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).
[Probably from to get someone's shirt out, to annoy, or to keep one's shirt on, to keep from being annoyed.]
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shirty
(ˈʃɜːtɪ)adj, shirtier or shirtiest
slang 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
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shirt•y
(ˈʃɜr ti)adj. shirt•i•er, shirt•i•est.
short-tempered; irritable.
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| Adj. | 1. |  shirty - (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyedcolloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech Britain, 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 Kingdom ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition |
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shirty
[ˈʃɜːtɪ] ADJ (shirtier (compar) (shirtiest (superl))) he was pretty shirty about it → no le gustó nada, no le cayó en graciaCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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shirty
adj (+er) (esp Brit inf) → sauer (inf), → verärgert; (as characteristic) → griesgrämig (inf); he got pretty shirty about it → er wurde ganz schön sauer (inf); now don’t get shirty with me! → nun werd nicht gleich sauer! (inf)
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shirty
[ˈʃɜːtɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (fam) he was pretty shirty about it → si è incavolato abbastanza per questa storiaCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
shirty
(ˈʃəːti) adjective angry; bad-tempered. He was a bit shirty with her when she arrived late.
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