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shirty, a.|ˈʃɜːtɪ|
Also shirtey.
[f. shirt n. + -y.]
1. Ill-tempered. See shirt n. 2 f. slang.
1846Swell's Night Guide 54 ‘I am exceedingly obliged,’ grunted Tomkins, in rather a shirty tone, and continued reading. 1856H. Phillips Jrnl. 18 Apr. (typescript) 30 Jem and Mrs R. Shirty. 1859Hotten's Slang Dict., Shirty, ill tempered or cross. 1861Mayhew Lond. Labour III. 137 They knocked his back as they went over, and he got shirtey. Then came a row. 1892Punch 20 Feb. 88/2 No end of a shirty letter from the Governor. 1911[see rouse v.4]. 1916Chambers's Jrnl. June 404/2 Please don't get shirty, old chap. 1927[see rag n.1 3 c]. 1934Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves vii. 73 But don't tell me that when he saw how shirty she was about it, the chump didn't back down? 1960J. Rae Custard Boys i. v. 54 All right; all right; there's no need to get shirty about it.
2. Resembling or modelled on a shirt.
1958J. Kerouac On Road iv. 288 A sixteen-year-old colored girl..in her short shirty dress. 1973Guardian 10 Apr. 13/2 Fox-trimmed parka with shirred waist, shirty cuffs.
Hence ˈshirtily adv.; ˈshirtiness.
1899Daily News 12 Jan. 5/1 With both peoples [French and German]..the whole duty of man includes the duty of getting ‘shirty’ on the slightest provocation. Till they recognize that ‘shirtiness’ itself is the real enemy of self-respect, they must infallibly go on boring holes in one another in this fatuous way. 1974P. Cave Mama (new ed.) xiv. 113 ‘Seems a bloody con to me,’ he mumbled shirtily. 1978D. Francis Trial Run vii. 105 They told us pretty shirtily just now not to bother them. |