transitive. To anger, grieve; to vex.

transitive. To provoke, annoy, irritate, offend.

transitive. To vex, trouble, annoy, anger. Also reflexive: to be or become vexed or angry. English regional and Scottish in later use.

transitive. To displease, dissatisfy; to anger, irritate. Obsolete.

transitive. To provoke (someone); to offend, annoy. Cf. grill, v.1 1.

transitive. To irritate.

transitive. To provoke, vex, worry, harass.

transitive. To smear or cover with tar. Also absol.

To irritate, vex, annoy.

transitive. To make hot or warm. Also figurative to excite, irritate.

to provoke greatly.

figurative. To affect with a sudden sharp mental pain or an access of painful emotion or irritation; to drive to or into (rage, madness, etc.) by…

figurative. To heat or ruffle in temper; to vex, irritate.

transitive. figurative. To stir up; to incite, goad, irritate. Also occasionally intransitive.

transitive. To anger, irritate.

transitive. To irritate, provoke.

transitive. To provoke. rare.

transitive. To irritate, vex, provoke, annoy. Frequently in pass with at, by, with, etc. Also occasionally intransitive.

transitive. To provoke.

To excite, affect, move; also, to vex, irritate, provoke. Obsolete.

transitive. To trouble, vex, upset; to provoke an emotional response in (a person) as if by touching a sore or tender part; to hurt the feelings…

To provoke to anger; to irritate or annoy. Also with clause (quot. 1593). Now dialect.

transitive. To exasperate (a person); to incense, embitter; to provoke, arouse the dislike, dissatisfaction, or concern of; (also in weakened use)…

To excite to impatient or angry feeling; to exasperate, provoke; to vex, fret, annoy, ruffle the feelings of.

transitive. To put out of humour, vex, ‘aggravate’.

figurative. To set in readiness for action; to raise (feeling) to a high degree; now usually, to put into a state of tension or intensity of…

intransitive. To find fault with, nag at, criticize; to taunt, tease. Now chiefly regional.

transitive. To put or drive (a person) out of a particular humour or mood. Obsolete.

transitive. To irritate, annoy, or tease (an animal).

transitive. To enrage (a person) against another; = blood, v. 3. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To render fierce, exasperate.

transitive. To poison, embitter, inflame (a feeling or person); to cause pain to. Now usually: to annoy persistently, irritate, rile.

To fill with spleen; to make angry or ill-tempered. Obsolete.

transitive. To render splenetic or ill-humoured.

transitive. To annoy, make angry, vex, irritate; (sometimes more generally) to stir up, rouse, provoke a response from. Also with up.

transitive. To annoy, make angry, vex. Cf. rile, v. 1.

transitive. To cause to lose one's equanimity; to distress, upset; (in later use esp.) to annoy, irritate, vex. Usually in passive.

The exposed flesh. Chiefly in to touch (also get, catch, etc.) (a person) on the raw (figurative): to unsettle (a person) by alluding to or acting in…

transitive. figurative. To irritate, ruffle. Also with up.

transitive. To exacerbate (a negative feeling or problem); (occasionally) †to sour or embitter (a person) (obsolete).

to stroke against the hair, the wrong way (of the hair): to rub (an animal) in the direction opposite to the natural lie of its hair; figurative…

transitive. To find fault with, provoke, complain to, or urge (a person), esp. annoyingly or persistently. Also in extended use.

transitive. to rub (a person, etc.) up the wrong way = sense 5a. Also without the wrong way.

transitive. To put in a bad humour, vex.

transitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). To fluster, disconcert; to make nervous, alarm, or frighten. Also: to irritate. Also occasionally intrans…

figurative. to set up one's bristles: to show temper, resistance, or pride; to bristle up, ‘put up one's back’. to set up any one's bristles: to…

To irritate to indignation, etc.; to goad, nettle.

colloquial. transitive. To annoy, irritate; to goad, torment, provoke; to badger, pester. Frequently with prepositional phrase as complement.

transitive. colloquial. To tease (a person) in order to provoke a response; to irritate, exasperate. Obsolete.

transitive. To upset, irritate, ruffle. Cf. roughen, v. 1b. Now rare.

figurative. to stick pins into: to goad; to irritate or annoy; to attack verbally.

intransitive. To affect (a person's mind, etc.) in such a way as to harass, obsess, or cause to become a source of worry; esp. in to get on a perso…

Weakened or exhausted by exertion, etc.; fatigued, wearied; also, sick or weary of, impatient with… in the predicate. Also in slang phrase to make…

transitive. To provoke; to treat harshly, harangue.

to get under a person's skin: to annoy or irritate someone intensely; (also) to fill someone's mind in a compelling or persistent way.

Originally U.S. To anger, annoy, or irritate; to make (a person) lose his or her temper. Also in to get a person's goat up. Cf. to get a person's…

colloquial. to be on about: to keep talking about, to harp on, to speak or write about (a subject). to be on at (also to be on to): to nag or…

slang. to get a person's nanny: to annoy or irritate a person. Cf. to get a person's goat at goat, n. adj.phrases 4, to get a person's nanny-goat at…

to argue, to nag.

slang. to get a person's nanny-goat: to annoy or irritate (a person). Cf. to get a person's goat at goat, n. adj.phrases 4, to get a person's nanny…

transitive. To nag.

transitive. To make peevish; to irritate, annoy.

Fortune-telling; a fortune-teller. to work the tick-off, to practise fortune-telling.

slang (chiefly British). to get on a person's tits: to irritate a person intensely, to get on a person's nerves. Also occasionally in to get on a pe…

transitive. To annoy, irritate, or depress (a person). Cf. pissed, adj. 3.

transitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). To annoy, irritate; to bother, pester.

slang. to get up a person's nose: to annoy or irritate a person.

figurative. transitive with off: to anger, annoy, irritate. Hence teed off adj. angry, annoyed, disgruntled, indignant. North American slang.

colloquial (chiefly North American). transitive. To make (a person) feel annoyed, upset, or disappointed; to depress, sadden; to irritate. Usually…

To annoy, anger; to dispirit. Cf. ticked, adj.2 c. U.S. slang.