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Definition of Testy
1. Adjective. Easily irritated or annoyed. "Not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
Similar to: Ill-natured
Derivative terms: Crank, Crankiness, Fractiousness, Irritability, Irritability, Peevishness, Pettishness, Petulance, Testiness, Tetchiness
Definition of Testy
1. a. Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.
Definition of Testy
1. Adjective. Easily annoyed, irritable. ¹
2. Adjective. Marked by impatience or ill humor. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Testy
1. irritable [adj TESTIER, TESTIEST] - See also: irritable
Lexicographical Neighbors of Testy
Literary usage of Testy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and by Washington Irving (1849)
"PROJECTS OF WILLIAM THE testy FOR INCREASING THK CCK- RENCY UE IS OUTWITTED BY
THE YANKEES ... In an unlucky moment, William the testy, seeing this money of ..."
2. A History of New-York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the by Washington Irving (1848)
"PROJECTS OF WILLIAM THE testy FOR INCREASING THE CURRENCY HE IS OUTWITTED ...
In an unlucky moment, William the testy, seeing this money of easy production ..."
3. Belle Assemblée: Or, Court and Fashionable Magazine; Containing Interesting (1806)
"In plainer words, testy is the angry, passionate man, who flies out upon all
occasions, and bounces with a load of misery at his back, the accumulation of ..."
4. Works by Washington Irving (1857)
"CONTAINING THE FEARFUL WRATH OF WILLIAM THE testy, AND THE ALARM OF NEW ...
ANGUAGE cannot express the awful ire of William the testy on hearing of the ..."
5. Memoirs Concerning the Affairs of Scotland, from Queen Anne's Accession to by George Lockhardt (1824)
"Containing the fearful Wrath of William the testy, and , the great Dolor of the
... And moreover how William the testy did strongly fortify the City. ..."
6. A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the by Washington Irving (1829)
"Containing the fearful wrath of William the testy, and the great dolour of the
New-Amsterdammers, because of the affair of Fort Goed Hoop—and, moreover, ..."
7. Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography by Washington Irving (1849)
"PROJECTS OF WILLIAM THE testy FOR INCREASING THE CURRENCY HE IS OUTWITTED ...
In an unlucky moment, William the testy, seeing this money of easy production ..."
8. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1807)
"The Miseries of Human Life; or the Groans of Samuel Sensitive and Timothy testy.
With a few supplementary Sighs from Mrs. testy. 12/»o. 8». Miller. 1806. ..."
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