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    shirty
    /ˈʃəːti/

    adjective

    • 1. bad-tempered or annoyed: informal British "she got quite shirty"

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  2. The meaning of SHIRTY is angry, irritated. How to use shirty in a sentence.

  3. If someone gets shirty, they behave in a bad-tempered and rude way because they are annoyed about something.

  4. Definition of shirty adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  5. Shirty definition: bad-tempered; irritable; cranky.. See examples of SHIRTY used in a sentence.

  6. shirt·y. (shûr′tē) adj. shirt·i·er, shirt·i·est Chiefly British. Ill-tempered; angry: "He saw how shirty she was about it" (P.G. Wodehouse). [Probably from to get someone's shirt out, to annoy, or to keep one's shirt on, to keep from being annoyed.] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.

  7. Probably from to get someone's shirt out to annoy, or to keep one's shirt on to keep from being annoyed. From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.