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WORDNET DICTIONARY
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Testy

 : 
Adjective
 : 
tes=ty

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective Testy has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Testya. [OF. testu obstinate, headstrong, F. têtu, fr. OF. teste the head, F. tête. See Test a cupel.].
     Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.  [1913 Webster]
    "Must I observe you? must I stand and crouch
    Under your testy humor?
    "  [1913 Webster]
    "I was displeased with myself; I was testy."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Testy, adj. (testier, testiest) irritable, touchy.

Derivative
testily adv. testiness n.
Etymology
ME f. AF testif f. OF teste head (as TEST(2))

THESAURUS

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

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Testy

Irascibility

N irascibility, irascibleness, temper, crossness, susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity, pugnacity, excitability, bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable, temper, genus irritabile, hot blood, ill humor, asperity, churlishness, huff, a word and a blow, Sir Fretful Plagiary, brabbler, Tartar, shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe, porcupine, spitfire, fire eater, fury, irascible, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, irritable, susceptible, excitable, thin-skinned, fretful, fidgety, on the fret, hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy, like touchwood, like tinder, huffy, pettish, petulant, waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, sudden and quick in quarrel, querulous, captious, moodish, quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious, pugnacious, cantankerous, exceptious, restiff, churlish, cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs, fractious, peevish, acari=atre, in a bad temper, sulky, angry, resentful, resentive, vindictive, Int, pish!, a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes, quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor, vino tortus et ira.

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