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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
testy
adj : 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, tetchy,
techy]
[also: testiest, testier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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