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Definition of Shirty
1. Adjective. (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed.
Language type: Colloquialism
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Similar to: Ill-natured
Derivative terms: Snort
Definition of Shirty
1. Adjective. (informal) ill-tempered or annoyed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shirty
1. angry [adj SHIRTIER, SHIRTIEST] - See also: angry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shirty
Literary usage of Shirty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Front Lines by Boyd Cable (1918)
"shirty broke in angrily. "Will you shut yer heads, and get back, one o' you?
We'll be done in if they rush us again." "See here, Babbie," said ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1849)
"shirty here, I am sorry to say, gives me to understand that, at headquarters, as
I am attached to the military chest, and not to the commissariat, ..."
3. Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students by Cornelis Stoffel (1894)
"20, 1892, 88*: " No end of a shirty letter from the Governor. ... Well of course
this made Bill very shirty, so he says, says he ..."; Punch, 1879, Vol. ..."
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