Reverse Dictionary: OFFENSE

ADJECTIVES
1580 ► PEPPER-NOSED apt to take offense → obs.
1592 ► OFFENCIOUS having the quality of transgressing or committing an offence; of the nature of a transgression → obs.
E17.. ► INVIDIOUS likely to give offense or arouse ill feeling
1601 ► OMBRAGEOUS → UMBRAGEOUS → UMBRAGIOUS of persons: suspicious, jealous; apt to disposed to take offense
1603 ► OFFENCEFUL causing offence or displeasure; wrong; sinful; criminal → obs.
1607 ► OFFENSIVE having the quality of transgressing or committing offense; of the nature of a transgression → obs.
1678 ► SNUFFY annoyed, displeased, ready to take offense, touchy; sulky, angry, vexed, fault-finding; unpleasant, disagreeable
1680 ► HUFFY arrogant, choleric; also, ready to take offense, touchy, pettish
1750 ► MIFFY apt to take offense, touchy, capricious → Eng. dial. & US
1790 ► GOPPISH pert, proud; pettish, apt to take offense → Eng. dial. obs.
19C.. ► PERJINKETY apt to take offense → Eng. dial.
19C.. ► PUGGY to take offense → Eng. dial.
1853 ► PRICKLY of a person: quick to react angrily, ready to take offense; touchy, oversensitive
1855 ► TIFFISH ready to take offense; pettish, peevish → colloq.
1868 ► NATTLE quick to take offense; touchy; irritable; cross → Eng. dial.
1875 ► JUNTOUS apt to take offense; ill-tempered, sullen, captious, surly, morose → Eng. dial.
1880 ► TANTY → TONTIE ready to take offense, touchy → Sc.
1880 ► TOUCHOUS tetchy, touchy, apt to take offense; irritable, irascible, peevish; testy, easily angered, ill-tempered → Amer. dial.
1899 ► NARROW-NEBBED narrow in one’s religious views; superstitiously struck; apt to take offense → Sc.
1905 ► HAIR-SORE touchy, ready to take offense → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1913 ► TETCHIOUS tetchy, touchy, apt to take offense; irritable, irascible, peevish; testy, easily angered, ill-tempered → Amer. dial.

NOUNS
1724 ► UMBRAGE displeasure, annoyance, offense, resentment
1869 ► EXCEPTIONS exception, offense → Amer. dial.
1900 ► PEAK offense, umbrage, pique; a grudge → Eng. dial.  

NOUNS, PERSON
1583 ► HUFF-SNUFF a conceited fellow who gives himself airs and is quick to take offense; a braggart, a hector, a blustering person → obs.
1660 ► PECCADILLIE a minor fault or sin; a trivial offense, a petty crime → obs.
1966 ► POOSHIE → PUSHIE one who takes offense easily; a timorous person → Ulster sl.

VERBS
1596 ► TAKE ILL to take offense at, to take amiss
1700 ► TAKE THE GEE to take offense, to become sulky → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1709 ► RIDE RUSTY to be obstinate or awkward; to be angry; to take offense
1718 ► RUN RUSTY to be obstinate or awkward; to be angry; to take offense
1750 ► TAKE MIFF to take offense, to be affronted → Eng. dial.
1785 ► NAB THE RUST to become restive; hence, to take offense; also, to become angry or sulky
1785 ► RIDE GRUB to take  offense; to be sulky, or out of humour → colloq.
1787 ► TAKE PEPPER IN THE NOSE to take offense; to become angry or irritated; to be vexed; to mistrust
1787 ► TAKE RUST → TAKE THE RUST to become restive; hence, to take offense; also, to become angry or sulky
L18.. ► NAB THE RUST to be ill-tempered or sullen: to be angry or sulky; to take offense → sl.
19C.. ► RABBET to be angry, to take offense → Eng. dial.
1801 ► KEG to annoy, to vex, to insult, to give sharp offense; to grieve → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1802 ► MIFF to annoy or infuriate; to take offense or offend
1812 ► REEST to refuse to proceed in any undertaking; to take offense → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1871 ► MOUNT THE HIGH HORSE said of a person affecting airs of superiority, or behaving pretentiously or arrogantly; to be overbearing or oppressive; to be proud; to take offense
1898 ► TAKE FAT to take offense → Eng. dial.
1905 ► PACK IT UPON A PERSON to foist an offence upon another → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► TAKE THE FRUNTS to take offense → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► TAKE TIFF to take offense → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1930 ► FLY SALTY to be annoyed or irritated; to take offense → sl., orig. African-American
1930 ► JUMP SALTY to be annoyed or irritated; to take offense → sl., orig. African-American