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testy![]() ![]() Source: 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. [1913 Webster] Must I observe you? must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor? --Shak. [1913 Webster] I was displeased with myself; I was testy. --Latimer. [1913 Webster] Source: 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]
Source: 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 Matching Word(s) Test Resty Westy Yesty zesty Tasty Tetty Testa Teste Tests test tasty testa TEST TESTE
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