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Shirty

Definition: Shirty

Shirty

Adjective

1. (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonym: Shirty

Synonym: snorty (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Shirty

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You're a dope, and a bonehead, and, and you're shirty. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Movie/TV Titles

Getting Shirty (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Shirty

"Shirty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Shirty" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)83.33%5157,705
Noun (singular)16.67%1339,140
                    Total100.00%6N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Shirty

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "shirty": shirty-something.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Shirty

Language Translations for "shirty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

me nerva, i nxehur (candent, ireful, resentful, surly, vexed). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ядосан (angry, grumpy, mad, pissed off, sick, snotty, teed off, warm, wrathful), нервиран (excited). (various references)

   

Czech

  

rozzuřený (enraged, exasperating, furious, infuriating, raving mad). (various references)

   

German

  

sauer (acetous, acid, acidic, acidly, acis, acrid, cross, mad, moped, moping, off, pickled, sharp, sickly, sore, sour, soured, sourly, sulkily, sulky, tart, tartly, uptight), verärgert (angrily, angry, annoyed, crossly, disgruntles, peeved, piqued, sore, vexed), griesgrämig (curmudgeonly, grouchily, grouchy, grumpy, joyless, morose, sour, sourly). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ζοχαδιακός, τσαντίλασ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

morcos (criss-cross, cross-grained, dour, fractious, frumpish, sullen, to be in a pet), dühös (angry, furious, hot, irate, ratty, sick, to be choked, to be in a pet, upset, venomous, waxy, Wroth). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

marah (angry, chafe, crabbed, crusty, indignant, irate, mad, wrathful, wroth). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irtyshay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

ofendido (aggrieved, huffy, injured, resentful), irritável (bilious, crab, crabbed, crusty, edgy, fretful, irascible, irritable, liver-colored, liver-coloured, livery, nervous, nervy, petulant, short-tempered, techy, testy, tetchy, touchy, waspish). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

раздраженный (angry, annoyed, cranky, cross, disgruntled, hot, on edge, peeved, warm). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

mrzovoljan (cantankerous, cranky, glum, grouchy, ill-humored, petulant, saturnine, spleenful, splenetic, sulky, testy), ljutit (angry, huffish, ireful, querulous). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

furioso (angry, blustering, boisterous, desperate, ding-dong, furious, mad, peeved, pelting, rabid, raging, rampageous, rampant, wild), enojado (angry, cross, displeased, hipped, huffy, mad, snotty, vexed). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sur (acid, crabbed, cranky, cross, crotchety, dismal, grouchy, Moody, morose, ratty, sharp, sour, surly, wet), uppretad (enraged, exasperated, irritated), ilsken (angry, bilious, cranky, cross, ferocious, fierce, furious, humpy, irate, livid, mad, savage, ugly, vicious), förargad (annoyed, vexed). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sinirli (apoplectic, apoplectical, bristly, choleric, discomposedly, edgy, high strung, hot-blooded, hot-headed, huffish, huffy, ill-conditioned, in a pet, irate, ireful, irritable, jumpy, liverish, mad, nervous, nervy, on edge, out of humor, out of humour, peeved, pissed off, ratty, short tempered, sinewed, sinewy, spunky, testy, uptight, waxy, wild, wrought up), huysuz (acrimonious, as cross as two sticks, bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, crabby, crank, cranky, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, crusty, cursed, difficult, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, farouche, fractious, fretful, gnarled, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, mean, Moody, out of humour, out of sorts, peeved, peevish, peppery, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, querulous, ratty, rusty, snappish, spleenful, spleenish, splenetic, stroppy, sulky, surly, tetchy, thrawn, ugly, untoward, vicious, vixenish, waspish, wildcat, wrongheaded), aksi (adverse, awkward, bad tempered, bilious, bloody minded, cantankerous, contra, contra-, contrary, counter, crabbed, crabby, cross, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, doggish, dour, evil, fractious, fretful, Froward, gruff, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, inverse, negatory, opposite, peevish, perverse, petulant, recalcitrant, refractory, reverse, snappish, snuffy, spleenful, spleenish, stroppy, stubborn, sullen, surly, tart, testy, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, wrongheaded), çabuk sinirlenir. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сердитий (angry, crabbed, cross-grained, grouty, irate, porky, rambunctious, roily, sulky), роздратований (aggravated, angry, annoyed, bad tempered, disgruntled, edgy, exasperated, huffy, irritated, nasty, peeved, querulous, vexed). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

bực dọc (bed). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Shirty

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: thyrsi, yirths.

Words within the letters "h-i-r-s-t-y"

-1 letter: shirt, yirth.

-2 letters: hist, hits, shri, sith, stir, thir, this.

-3 letters: his, hit, its, shy, sir, sit, sri, sty, thy, tis, try.

-4 letters: hi, is, it, sh, si, ti.

 Words containing the letters "h-i-r-s-t-y"
 

+1 letter: christy, history, thirsty.

 

+2 letters: fortyish, hysteria, hysteric, slithery, smithery, thyroids, thyrsoid, trashily.

 

+3 letters: arythmias, birthdays, brutishly, chemistry, erythrism, forsythia, hairstyle, hysterias, hysterics, hysteroid, kryoliths, lathyrism, prettyish, rhyolites, rhythmics, rhythmist, ruttishly, sophistry, sprightly, starchily, stitchery, thirstily, thirtyish, thyristor, thyroxins, triglyphs, triptychs, yahrzeits.

 

+4 letters: anhydrites, biorhythms, chrysolite, chrysotile, copyrights, countryish, dithyrambs, dysarthria, dystrophic, erythrisms, erythrites, erythrosin, eurythmics, eurythmies, eyebrights, forsythias, hairstyles, hydrations, hypocrites, hysteresis, hysteretic, hysterical, labyrinths, lathyrisms, polyhistor, prehistory, psychiatry, pyrethrins, rhythmists, rhythmizes, rhytidomes, scratchily, shrievalty, sphericity, straightly, strychnine, suretyship, switchyard, thyristors, thyroxines, tigerishly, trichocyst, trickishly, trihybrids.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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