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shirty (SHUR-tee) - adj., (Brit.) ill-tempered, annoyed, cranky.
Crabby, cross-grained, talking angrily because irritated, and so on. Hardly ever used in the States, for what it's worth. Origin uncertain, but it's frequently suggested that it's related to the idiom to get (someone's) shirt out, meaning to annoy someone, which again isn't an Americanism, though its converse, keep one's shirt on, to AVOID getting annoyed, is very much one. Go fig.
---L.
Crabby, cross-grained, talking angrily because irritated, and so on. Hardly ever used in the States, for what it's worth. Origin uncertain, but it's frequently suggested that it's related to the idiom to get (someone's) shirt out, meaning to annoy someone, which again isn't an Americanism, though its converse, keep one's shirt on, to AVOID getting annoyed, is very much one. Go fig.
---L.
