English-Thai Dictionary

testy

ADJ โกรธ ง่าย  ใจร้อน  หุนหันพลันแล่น  ขี้โมโห  grouchy peevish touchy koed-ngai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TESTY

a.Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated. Pyrrbus cured his testy courtiers with a kick.
Must I stand and crouch under your testy humor?

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TESTY

Tes "ty, a. [Compar. Testier; superl. Testiest.] Etym: [OF. testu obstinate, headstrong, F. têtu, fr. OF. teste the head, F. tête. See Test a cupel. ]

 

Defn: Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated. Must I observe you must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor Shak. I was displeased with myself; I was testy. Latimer.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

testy

tes ty |ˈtestē tɛsti | ▶adjective easily irritated; impatient and somewhat bad-tempered. DERIVATIVES tes ti ly |ˈtestəlē |adverb, tes ti ness noun ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘headstrong, impetuous ’): from Anglo-Norman French testif, from Old French teste ‘head, ’ from Latin testa ‘shell. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

testy

testy |ˈtɛsti | ▶adjective ( testier, testiest ) easily irritated; impatient and somewhat bad-tempered. DERIVATIVES testily adverb, testiness noun ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘headstrong, impetuous ’): from Anglo-Norman French testif, from Old French teste ‘head ’, from Latin testa ‘shell ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

testy

testy adjective what's made you so testy today? irritable, tetchy, cranky, ornery, cantankerous, irascible, bad-tempered, grumpy, grouchy, crotchety, petulant, crabby, crusty, curmudgeonly, ill-tempered, ill-humored, peevish, cross, fractious, pettish, prickly, short-fused, waspish, snappish, snippy. ANTONYMS good-humored.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

testy

testy adjective he was testy, arrogant, and hard to get on with: bad-tempered, grumpy, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, dyspeptic, irritable, tetchy, irascible, peevish, crotchety, cantankerous, cross, fractious, disagreeable, pettish, crabbed, crabby, waspish, prickly, peppery, impatient, touchy, scratchy, volatile, crusty, liverish, splenetic, short-tempered, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, choleric; informal snappish, snappy, chippy, grouchy, cranky, on a short fuse; Brit. informal shirty, stroppy, narky, ratty, eggy, like a bear with a sore head; N. Amer. informal peckish, soreheaded; Austral. /NZ informal snaky; informal, dated miffy. ANTONYMS good-humoured.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

testy

tes ty /tésti /形容詞 〈人が 〉怒りっぽい, 短気な (irritable ); いらいらした .t é s ti ly 副詞 t é s ti ness 名詞