Definitions for shirty

shirty shirt·y

Spelling: [shur-tee]
IPA: /ˈʃɜr ti/

Shirty is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in shirty (hirsty).

Definitions for shirty

adjective

  1. bad-tempered; irritable; cranky.

Origin of shirty

1840-50; shirt, in the phrase get someone's shirt out to annoy + -y1

Examples for shirty

Of course, if she had been plain, he reflected gravely, one could understand her being so shirty.

That's really how it was when I saw you going off with that creature; but of course I was an ass to get shirty about it.

"Don't you get shirty if I talks about that dream," he said.

He with the greatest propriety might call me "Johnny Newcome," yet it ill became me to call him "shirty."

I called out loudly and angrily, 'shirty, don't shoot him in the back!'

But don't tell me that when he saw how shirty she was about it, the chump didn't back down?

shirty was n't there, but I had him covered when he turned back, red hot at having been deceived.

Word Value for shirty
Scrable

12

Words with friends

10

Similar words for shirty
Word of the day