Testy
['testɪ] or ['tɛsti]
Definition
(superl.) Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Peevish, petulant, fretful, pettish, touchy, cross, waspish, snappish, choleric, splenetic, irascible, irritable, captious, hasty, quick, peppery.
Checker: Presley
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Irritable, peevish, fretful, touchy, cross, fractious, captious, petulant,[See_APPAL]
Checker: Spenser
Definition
adj. heady: easily irritated: fretful: peevish.—adv. Tes′tily.—n. Tes′tiness.
Typist: Vivienne
Examples
- Certainly, sir,' replied the testy little judge. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He deserved condign punishment for his testy crotchets. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Drive on, boys,' cried the testy old gentleman; 'don't waste any more time with that old idiot! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I wonder what always makes you so mighty testy à l'endroit du gros Jean? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Yet I should not like the breach to be widened, and he is so testy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Editor: Oswald