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Definition: Shirty |
ShirtyAdjective1. (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: ShirtySynonym: snorty (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "shirty": shirty-something. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | ||
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. | |
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