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testy

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testy
adjective
he was testy, arrogant, and hard to get on with:
bad-tempered, grumpy, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humored, 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;
British, informal shirty, stroppy, narky, ratty, eggy, like a bear with a sore head;
North American, informal peckish, soreheaded;
Australian, New Zealand, informal snaky;
informal , dated miffy.
antonyms good-humored.