Testy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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