OFFEND, OFFENDED, OFFENDER, OFFENDING
ADJECTIVES
1310 ► FAYLLARD that fails or offends; offending, delinquent → obs.
1581 ► TICKLISH easily upset in temper; apt to be offended, sensitive, touchy
1592 ► TETCHY touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered, peevish, easily offended
1594 ► UNBESEEMING unbecoming; offending against propriety or good taste
L16.. ► IN SNUFF offended → sl.
1605 ► DORTY spoiled, pettish, sullen, sulky, easily offended, ill-humoured; saucy, haughty, conceited, proud, stubborn; contemptuous → Sc.
1621 ► TETTY easily offended; irritable, peevish; captious, testy, cross-tempered; bad-tempered → obs. exc. Sc.
1680 ► THIN-SKINNED sensitive to criticism, reproach, or rebuff; easily offended; touchy
1691 ► TEECHY → TITCHY tetchy, peevish, irritable, short-tempered; easily offended or angered → Eng. dial.
1746 ► TILTISH easily offended, irritable, touchy → Eng. dial. obs.
1790 ► MIFFISH easily offended or irritated
1796 ► DUDGEONED offended, indignant
1797 ► MIFF out of humour, offended → obs.
1798 ► WOMBLE-CROPPED unhappy, discomfited, irritated; dissatisfied; offended → Amer. dial.
L18.. ► UPPISH irritable, easily offended → sl.
19C.. ► CLUNCHY quick-tempered; short tempered; easily offended → Eng. dial.
1800 ► OFFENSIBLE liable to take offense; easily offended
1805 ► MIFFED annoyed, offended, indignant, disgruntled
1809 ► TUTTY irritable, ill-tempered, testy, touchy, peevish, easily offended → Eng. dial.
1815 ► TECHY touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered, peevish, easily offended, sensitive → Amer. dial.
1822 ► KITTLY easily offended; sensitive → Sc.
1825 ► STRUNTY short-tempered, easily offended, sulky, out of humour, pettish, huffy → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1825 ► TILTY easily offended, irritable, touchy → Eng. dial. obs.
1836 ► WAMBLE-CROPPED unhappy, discomfited, irritated; dissatisfied; offended → Amer. dial.
1846 ► TOITISH saucy, pert, or impudent; easily offended; flighty in temper; irritable, ill-tempered, snappish → Eng. dial.
1848 ► HIGHTY-TIGHTY petulant, huffy, easily offended
1868 ► OFFENDABLE capable of being or liable to be offended
1874 ► TICKLE uncertain in temper; touchy, easily offended → Eng. dial.
1882 ► FRATCH quarrelsome, easily offended, touchy → Eng. dial.
1882 ► SAFT-SKINNED easily offended, touchy, thin-skinned → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1894 ► TICKY finicky, fussy, too particular; touchy, easily offended → Amer. dial.
1895 ► PECKISH short-tempered; easily offended; nagging, hypercritical → Amer. dial.
1898 ► CAGGED irritated, angry, annoyed, vexed, offended; grieved → Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1907 ► ON THE PECK irritable; angry; ready to fight; short-tempered; easily offended → Amer. dial.
1922 ► SHORT-PATIENCED quick-tempered; excitable; touchy; irritable; easily offended; impatient → Amer. dial.
1922 ► SHORT-PATIENT quick-tempered; excitable; touchy; irritable; easily offended; impatient → Amer. dial.
1949 ► PECKY short-tempered; easily offended; nagging, hypercritical → Amer. dial.
1950 ► OWLY angry, cross, irritable, bad-tempered, easily offended; sulky, pouting → Amer. dial.
1966 ► OUCHY irritable, short-tempered, touchy, easily offended, sensitive, intolerant → Amer. dial.
1969 ► ON OFFSIDES of a person: odd, peculiar; irritable, touchy, easily offended → Amer. dial.
1969 ► ON THE OFFSIDE of a person: odd, peculiar; irritable, touchy, easily offended → Amer. dial.
1978 ► HIGH-DUDGEONED offended, indignant
1988 ► POKED OUT put out, upset, offended → Amer. dial.
1996 ► BUTTHURT overly or unjustifiably offended or resentful → US sl.
NOUNS
1751 ► TIFT a slight fit of ill-humour or offendedness; a petty quarrel or disagreement → Sc. & Eng. dial.
NOUNS, PERSON
1200 ► GUILTER an offender, a transgressor → obs.
1535 ► FAUGHTER → FAULTER one who commits a fault; a culprit, delinquent, offender → obs.
1597 ► OFFENDANT one who offends or does wrong; a transgressor, an offender
1601 ► OFFENDRESS a female offender
1675 ► MOUCHER an offender against something → obs.
1693 ► GUILTIST a guilty person; an offender → obs.
1809 ► AFFRONTEE a person who has been insulted or offended
1838 ► FAULTRESS a female offender
2004 ► BAD EGG a ne’er-do-well; a good-for-nothing; a habitual offender → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
VERBS
1000 ► ABELGHE to anger, to enrage; to offend → obs.
1394 ► STEP ON THE TOES OF to give offense to, to vex
1395 ► MISQUEME to displease, to dissatisfy, to offend → obs.
1504 ► CAG to offend; to insult → Eng. dial.
1512 ► OFFENCE to offend → obs.
1578 ► AFFRENT to insult, to offend → obs.
L16.. ► TAKE IN SNUFF → TAKE SNUFF to be offended → sl.
1783 ► HAVE ONE’S BACK UP to be angry or offended → sl.
1786 ► KITTLE to offend; to puzzle → Sc.
1808 ► PAUCE to strut around on one’s dignity; to prance with rage or irritation; to assume a stiff, offended demeanour → Sc.
1811 ► MIFF to annoy or infuriate; to take offense or offend → sl.
1868 ► TREAD ON THE TOES OF to give offense to, to vex
1894 ► UMBRAGE to offend, to displease
20C.. ► GET FUNNY WITH to reveal that one has been offended → sl.
1903 ► MISFET to offend, to incur ones displeasure → Sc. (Bk.)
1903 ► PEAK to offend, to pique; to bear a grudge → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► BRUSTLE UP to act indignantly or offended → Amer. dial.
1905 ► THINK to think something is wrong; to feel hurt or offended → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1906 ► DUDGEON to offend; to make indignant or resentful
1959 ► TOUCH to offend, to hurt the feelings of; to become offended or hurt → Amer. dial.
1970 ► RAUNCH OUT to offend by making sexual remarks or using offensive language → US students’ sl.