testy: [14] Testy means etymologically ‘heady’. It was borrowed from Anglo-Norman testif, a derivative of Old French teste ‘head’ (ancestor of modern French tête). This in turn went back to Latin testa ‘tile, earthenware pot’ (a relative of testum, from which English gets test), which in the post-classical period was used humorously for ‘head’. English acquired testy in the sense ‘headstrong, impetuous’, but by the 16th century it had shifted via ‘impatient’ to ‘irritable’. => test
testy (adj.)
early 15c., "impetuous, rash," altered from Middle English testif "headstrong" (late 14c.), from Anglo-French testif, Old French testu (Modern French têtu) "stubborn, headstrong, obstinate," literally "heady," from teste "head" (see tete). Meaning "easily irritated, irascible" is first recorded 1520s. Related: Testily; testiness.
雙語例句
1. Ben's getting a little testy in his old age.
上了年紀后本變得有點性急了。
來自辭典例句
2. Jack Pan: Who influenced you in your art testy?
潘杰客: 你的藝術品味受到誰的影響?
來自互聯網
3. They become lamb cropschops Testy once Tasty ones , says Daivd David Johnson.