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comparative shirtier, superlative shirtiest
(chiefly Australia, UK, informal) Ill-tempered or annoyed. quotations examples
"You ain't shirty 'cause I kissed yer last night?""I'm not shirty; but it was pretty cool, considerin' like as I didn't know yer."
1897, W. Somerset Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, chapter 3
"Well, so help me Bob, you are a shirty old cow, Mudgy."
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 92