Testy

Definition: Testy

Testy

Adjective

1. Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen".

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

Date "testy" was first used: 1510. (references)

Note: Testy \Tes"ty\, adjective. [Comparative Testier; superlative Testiest.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Testy

Irascibility

Hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy; like touchwood, like tinder; huffy; pettish, petulant; waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, " sudden and quick in quarrel ".

Crosswords: Testy

All I said was that our son, the apple of our three eyes, Martha being a cyclops, our son is a beanbag, and you get testy! (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; writing credit: Edward Albee; Ernest Lehman)

Testy (2003)

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Books

• Pravidlá cestnej premávky : a dalsie s�visiace predpisy : dopravné znacky, podmienky prevádzky vozidiel, dopravné situácie, testy (reference)

• TSenovaia politika firmy : evropeiskii opyt, rossiiskie perspektivy, modeli i metody, varianty i testy (reference)

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The edict of William the Testy.Credit: Library of Congress.

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The answer was testy.

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Expression using "testy": cranky fractious irritable peevish peckish pettish petulant testy tetchy techy. Additional references.

Albanian

idhnak (grumpy, liverish, ornery, peevish, petulant, querulous, quick tempered, sorehead, vixenish, waspish), gjaknxehtë (hot tempered, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hot-headed, irascible, irritable, peppery, quick tempered, short tempered, techy, tetchy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نكد (chafe, distemper, fractious, grouchiness, moodiness, moody, peevish, pettish, petulant, querulous, somber, sombre, splenetic, sulk, sullen, vex, vinegar), ‏نزق (cranky, cross, irritable, mad, pernickety, pettiness, petulance, quick, rattle-brained, ratty, scatter-brain, snippy, tetchy, touchiness), ‏سريع الغضب (combustible, crusty, hasty, inflammable, irascible, irate, irritable, passionate, peppery, quick tempered, short tempered, tempestuous, tetchy, ticklish, touchy), ‏عصبي (apprehensive, edgy, fidgety, fretful, jitterbug, jumpy, nervous, nervy, neural, neuralgic, on edge, pithy, restless, spooky, up the wall, uptight). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сприхав (breezy, combustible, hasty, high-spirited, hoity toity, hot tempered, hotheaded, irascible, irritable, peppery, petulant, quick tempered, short tempered, snappish, snappy, spicy, violent, waxy), обидчив (hoity toity, huffish, miffy, pettish, prickly, resentful, sensitive, spiky, squeamish, susceptible, techy, tetchy, thin-skinned, touchy, umbrageous). (various references)

Chinese 

暴躁. (various references)

Czech

popudlivý (bad tempered, cantankerous, irritable, short tempered), nevlídný (dismal, gruff, inclement, rugged, sour, stern, surly, uncongenial, unfriended, unfriendly, unkind), nedùtklivý (irritable, petulant, sensitive, thin-skinned, touchy, waspish), mrzutý (annoying, awkward, bad tempered, chuff, crabbed, cranky, cross, crusty, dumpish, frumpish, glum, grouchy, joyless, Moody, out of temper, peevish, pettish, rugged, sulky, sullen, surly, untoward, vexatious). (various references)

Farsi 

کج خلق (Crab, Irritable, Morose, Peevish, Petulant, Querulous, Snappish, Sullen, Techy, Tedious), زودرنج (Miff, Peevish, Petulant, Querulous, Techy, Touchy, Umbrageous). (various references)

French

nerveux, irrité, grincheux (tetchy), bougon. (various references)

German

gereizt (edgy, excited, frayed, galled, hackles up, irascible, irritable, irritably, irritated, narky, peevish, petulant, petulantly, provoked, ratty, ruffled, short tempered, supercharged, teased, testily, tetchy, touchy), reizbar (bilious, excitable, excitably, grumpy, inflammable, irascible, irascibly, irritable, irritably, nervous, peevish, prickly, sensitive, snappy, touchy, waspish). (various references)

Greek 

ευερέθιστοσ (edgy, excitable, fretter, passionate, peevish, petulant, prickly, touchy, waspish), οργίλοσ (irascible, ireful, ragefull, splenish, wrathful), δύστροποσ (bloody minded, cantankerous, captious, crabbed, cranky, cross, fretful, grouch, illtempered, morose, peevish, pettish, recalcitrant, shrewish, splenetic, splenish, sullen, surly, untoward, vixenish, waspish, wayward). (various references)

Hebrew 

עצב� י (edgy, fidgety, fretful, in a stew, irritable, jerky, jumpy, liverish, nervous, peevish, short, snappish, uptight), ר�'יז (erethistic, irritable), ר�'ז� י (bad tempered, cross, short tempered). (various references)

Hungarian

zsémbes (churlish, crabby, cross-grained, crusty, currish, disgruntled, grouchy, grousing, gruff, grumbler, grumbling, grumpy, john blunt, like a bear with a sore head, nagging, shrewd, shrewish, snapper, snappish, surly, vixenly), mogorva (as cross as two sticks, bearish, cheerless, crabbed, criss cross, crusty, disagreeable, disgruntled, grim, grouchy, grousing, gruff, have the sullens, ill tempered, like a bear with a sore head, morose, pouty, saturnine, snapping, snuffy, somber, sulky, sullen, surly), lobbanékony (emotional, explosive, flammable, hot-brained, hot-headed, impetuous, impulsive, inflammable, quick tempered, quick-tempered, short, tetchy, warm), ingerlékeny (be irritated, bilious, excitable, fractious, fretful, grumpy, highly strung, hot tempered, hot-tempered, ill tempered, inflammable, irascible, irritable, like a bear with a sore head, nervous, nettlesome, neurotic, peevish, peppery, perverse, petulant, prickly, techy, tetchy), haragos (angry, as cross as two sticks, cross, fretful, furious, indignant, irate, nettled, rough, tetchy, wrathful, Wroth). (various references)

Italian

stizzoso (irascible, peevish), irritabile (bad tempered, crotchety, edgy, excitable, fretful, irritable, jittery, petulant, snappish, techy, tetchy, touchy, vinegary). (various references)

Korean 

성미가 급한. (various references)

Pig Latin

estytay

Portuguese

rabugento (acrimonious, atrabilious, brutal, criss cross, crusty, currish, faultless, fiddle-faddle, fractious, fretfulness, frustrate, Grove, gruff, harsh, Moody, morose, peevish, pettish, querulous, rough, shrewish, snuffy, sour, sullen, surly, techy, tetchy, unkind, unpleasant), mal-humorado (bad tempered, cantankerous, choleric, crusty, glum, ill timed, ill-humoured, illiberal, Moody, mumpish, snappish, snappy, snotty, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, techy, tetchy), irritado (angry, huffish, huffy, peeved, pettish, resentful, roily, snappish, snappy, snotty, sore, techy, tetchy, waxy), irritável (bilious, crab, crabbed, crusty, edgy, fretful, grumpy, hot-blooded, huffish, huffy, irate, irritable, liver-coloured, liveried, livery, nervous, nervy, petulant, shirty, short tempered, techy, tetchy, touchy, waspish), irascível (fractious, fretful, gusty, hot-blooded, intractable, irascible, irritancy, quarrelsome, spunky, techy, tetchy, touchy, waspish), impertinente (arrogant, brash, cantankerous, currish, impertinent, mumps, peewit, pernickety, pettitoes, petulant, querulous, rat, ratty, saucy, snappish, snappy, techy, tetchy). (various references)

Romanian

susceptibil (difficult, huffish, in, irascible, petulaht, scrupulous, sensitive, spiky, susceptible, ticklish, touchy), supãrãcios (cantankerous, cross-grained, huffish, huffy, humoursome, irascible, irritable, liveried, peevish, pettish, scrupulous, short tempered, sour, tetchy, touchy), iute la mânie, iritabil (choleric, combustible, crabbed, crusty, excitable, fretful, gusty, inflammable, irascible, irritable, jumpy, petulaht, petulant, tetchy, ticklish, waspy), acru (acerb, acetous, acid, acidulous, acre, acrid, acrimonious, crabbed, cross, green, peevish, sharp, sour, sourly, sulky, surly, tart, touchy, unripe, vinegarish), ţâfnos (arrogant, grumpy, hot tempered, ill tempered, magged). (various references)

Russian 

раздражительный (apoplectic, bad tempered, bad-tempered, chippy, choleric, crab, crabbed, crabby, criss cross, crusty, doggish, fractious, fretful, grouty, grumpy, huffish, huffy, irascible, irritable, livery, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, quick tempered, quicktempered, rambunctious, rusty, short tempered, snappish, snooty, snuffy, spleenful, splenetic, touchy), вспыльчивый (choleric, explosive, fiery, hair-trigger, hasty, hot tempered, hot-blooded, hot-headed, hot-spirited, hot-tempered, inflammable, irascible, ornery, peppery, quick tempered, quicktempered, short tempered, short-tempered, spitfire, wildcat). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

osoran (biting, curt, gruff, hardmouthed), mrzovoljan (cantankerous, cranky, glum, grouchy, ill-humored, petulant, saturnine, shirty, spleenful, splenetic, sulky). (various references)

Spanish

irascible (hot tempered, irascible, peppery, techy, tetchy), ho/sco. (various references)

Swedish

snarstucken (huffy, spiky, tetchy, touchy), retlig (crabbed, fretful, fretting, ill tempered, irritable, Moody, peevish, pettish, snappy, snuffy, touchy, waspish). (various references)

Thai

โกรธง่าย (irascible, tetchy). (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, shirty, short tempered, sinewed, sinewy, spunky, uptight, waxy, wild, wrought up), asabi (choleric, crusty, hot-blooded, hot-headed, irritable, nervous, prickly, quick tempered, ratty, short tempered, techy, waspish), alıngan (easily offended, edgy, fragile, irritable, pettish, petulant, sensitive, sore, squeamish, stuffy, susceptible, susceptive, swift to take offence, techy, tender, tetchy, thin skin, ticklish, tickly, touchy, umbrageous), 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, shirty, snappish, snuffy, spleenful, spleenish, stroppy, stubborn, sullen, surly, tart, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, wrongheaded). (various references)

Ukranian 

запальний (choleric, explosive, fiery, gingery, hard-nosed, hasty, heated, hot, hot tempered, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, inflammable, inflammatory, ireful, ornery, passionate, peppery, quick tempered, short tempered, spunky), буркотливий (acidulated, acidulous, capernoited, crabbed, criss cross, cross-grained, currish, fumbling, grouchy, nagging, sourish). (various references)

Vietnamese 

hay hờn giận, hay giận dỗi (touchy), hay gắt dễ bị động lòng, hay cáu kỉnh, dễ bị phật ý. (various references)

Welsh

ffromllyd (irascible), ffrom (angry, irascible, touchy). (various references)

testa. (various references)

teste. (various references)

testif. (various references)

Misspellings

"Testy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Esty, festy, Gestyl, jesty, tacty, teetsy, tenty, tesrt, tesst, testi, testic, testie, testo, tesy, Teti, texti, texty, tisy, tity, totsy, tsti, Tversky, tystie, vesty, Westy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: yetts.

-1 letter: sett, stet, stey, stye, test, tets, tyes, yett.

-2 letters: set, sty, tet, tye, yes, yet.

-3 letters: es, et, ye.

+1 letter: fyttes, stylet, tryste, tythes.

+2 letters: satiety, stately, stylate, stylets, stylite, teentsy, tensity, testacy, testify, testily, tetryls, trysted, tryster, trystes, typeset, typiest, yatters.

+3 letters: amethyst, astutely, bystreet, cytaster, layettes, mythiest, skittery, statedly, stealthy, strategy, stretchy, stylites, subtlety, tapestry, thymiest, tintypes, travesty, trysters, tutoyers, typecast, typesets.

+4 letters: amethysts, antetypes, antitypes, astrocyte, asymptote, attorneys, austerity, autotypes, butylates, butyrates, bystreets, cattleyas, cytasters, dentistry, ethylates, extensity, festivity, intensity, intestacy, motleyest, osteocyte, outstayed, pettishly, posterity, prettyish, puttyless, sectility, spluttery, stenotype, stenotypy, sterility, stiltedly, stitchery, stylobate, synthetic, tensility, terabytes, testimony, tippytoes, topotypes, trachytes, typecasts, typestyle, yeastiest, ytterbias.

+5 letters: acetylates, astrocytes, astrometry, asymptotes, athrocytes, autolysate, autotypies, babysitter, baptistery, bestiality, botrytises, boycotters, cystitides, detestably, elasticity, encystment, erythrites, flyswatter, hesitantly, heterocyst, histiocyte, hypertexts, hysteretic, keybuttons, lectotypes, mastectomy, metastably, methylates, mistrysted, nematocyst, nymphettes, osteocytes, osteopathy, polytheist, prototypes, sentiently, skywritten, slatternly, somatotype, stationery, stealthily, stenotyped, stenotypes, stereotype, stereotypy, strathspey, stridently, stylobates, syncretist, synthesist, synthetase, synthetics, systematic, tactlessly, tastefully, testifying, thymocytes, tuberosity, tympanites, typescript, typesetter, typestyles, typewrites, wyandottes, yottabytes, ytterbiums, zettabytes.

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