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shirty

[shur-tee] Origin

shirt·y

[shur-tee]
adjective, shirt·i·er, shirt·i·est. Informal.
bad-tempered; irritable; cranky.

Origin:
1840–50; shirt, in the phrase get someone's shirt out to annoy + -y1

shirt·i·ness, noun
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Shirty is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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shirty (ˈʃɜːtɪ)
 
adj , shirtier, shirtiest
slang chiefly (Brit) bad-tempered or annoyed
 
[C19: perhaps based on such phrases as to get someone's shirt out to annoy someone]
 
'shirtily
 
adv
 
'shirtiness
 
n

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shirty
"ill-tempered," 1846, slang, probably from shirt, on notion of being disheveled in anger.
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