TESTINESS, TESTY
ADJECTIVES
► CUTTY testy, hasty, short of temper → 1825 Sc.
► DAUNCY ► DONCY bad-tempered, test, restive; saucy → 1909 Amer. dial.
► GRUBBY testy, ill-tempered, peevish → 1866 Eng. dial.
► NAGGY cross, snappish, querulous; shrewish; irritable; ill-natured, bad-tempered, testy; sarcastic → 1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► ON THE RAG irritated, irritable, testy, bad-tempered → 1960 sl.
► RAMSH brusque, testy → 1871 Sc.
► SPLENITIVE splenetic; irritable, morose, peevish, ill-humoured, quick-tempered, testy → 1633 obs.
► TATTY ► TUTTY irritable, ill-tempered, testy, touchy, peevish, easily offended → 1809 Eng. dial.
► TESSY angry, fractious, cross, testy → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TESTIF headstrong, obstinate, wilful, rash, testy → 1374 obs.
► TESTORN testy, quick to anger → 1777 Eng. dial. obs.
► TETCHIOUS tetchy, touchy, apt to take offense; irritable, irascible, peevish; testy, easily angered, ill-tempered → 1913 Amer. dial.
► TETCHY irritable; irascible; testy → 1592 sl.
► TETTY easily offended; irritable, peevish; captious, testy, cross-tempered; bad-tempered → 1621 obs. exc. Sc.
► THRISSLY ► THRISTLY testy, crabbed → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► TOUCHOUS tetchy, touchy, apt to take offense; irritable, irascible, peevish; testy, easily angered, ill-tempered → 1880 Amer. dial.
NOUNS
► CHICKEN testiness in discourse or behaviour → 20C Amer. sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► CODGERDICK a cranky, testy old man → 1967 Amer. dial.
► CUTTIE ► CUTTY a testy or naughty girl or woman; often used playfully → 1830
► SNUFFY a nickname for a testy person → 19C Eng. dial.
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