Testy

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
testy
    adj 1: easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious
           young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
           [syn: {cranky}, {fractious}, {irritable}, {nettlesome},
           {peevish}, {peckish}, {pettish}, {petulant}, {scratchy},
           {testy}, {tetchy}, {techy}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Testy \Tes"ty\, a. [Compar. {Testier}; superl. {Testiest}.] [OF.
   testu obstinate, headstrong, F. t[^e]tu, fr. OF. teste the
   head, F. t[^e]te. See {Test} a cupel.]
   Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.
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         Must I observe you? must I stand and crouch
         Under your testy humor?                  --Shak.
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         I was displeased with myself; I was testy. --Latimer.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "testy":
      bad-tempered, bearish, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, captious,
      choleric, churlish, contentious, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross,
      cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, cussed, disagreeable, edgy,
      excitable, feisty, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy,
      hot-tempered, huffish, huffy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, irascible,
      irritable, mean, on edge, ornery, peevish, perverse, petulant,
      pissed off, quarrelsome, querulous, quick-tempered, short-tempered,
      snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, tetchy, touchy, ugly,
      waspish
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