shirty

English

WOTD – 25 August 2015

Etymology

From shirt +‎ -y, probably based on the phrase get one's shirt out.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɝ.ti/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɜː.ti/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ti

Adjective

shirty (comparative shirtier, superlative shirtiest)

1. (chiefly Australia, UK, informal) Ill-tempered or annoyed.
   • 1897, W. Somerset Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, chapter 3:

     "You ain't shirty 'cause I kissed yer last night?"
     "I'm not shirty; but it was pretty cool, considerin' like as I didn't know yer."

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 92:

     "Well, so help me Bob, you are a shirty old cow, Mudgy."

Derived terms

• shirtily
• shirtiness

Translations

ill-tempered or annoyed

• Bulgarian: ядосан (bg) (jadosan), нервиран (bg) (nerviran)
• Russian: раздражённый (ru) m (razdražónnyj)
• Swedish: sur (sv)

Anagrams

• Irtysh, thyrsi