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English
Etymology
From shirt + -y, probably based on the phrase get one's shirt out.[1]
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Adjective
shirty (comparative shirtier, superlative shirtiest)
- (chiefly Australia, UK, informal) Ill-tempered or annoyed.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 92:"Well, so help me Bob, you are a shirty old cow, Mudgy."
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- ^ Farmer, John S. and Henley, W. E. A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English: Abridged from the Seven-volume, page 406. G. Routledge & Sons, Limited, 1905.
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