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Walter W. Skeat, surely one of the greatest linguists of all time and an outstanding innovator of his day (late 19th century), was often given to testy replies when a correspondent to Notes and Queries either disagreed with him or speculated on the etymology of a word without having first looked it up in one of Skeat's works or, if the alphabetic section had appeared, in the Oxford English Dictionary . He was often nasty; but toward the latter part of the 1890s the crust softened, and he mellowed a bit.
Witness Japan's testy response, on Dec. 7, 1941, to the United States cutting off oil exports.
The Washington Post leads with Jiang Zemin's testy meeting with some members of Congress.
The South China Morning Post writes that at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the home government got very testy over visiting foreign officials' preoccupation with the arrest and trial of former Deputy Premier Anwar Ibrahim.
Corporate lawyers whose transactional work seldom takes them inside a live courtroom full of emotional, frightened civilians and testy judges may feel like fish out of water in the great sea of pro bono work: divorce and child custody issues, landlord-tenant suits, workers' compensation and Social Security claims.