"arsey" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "arse + -y",
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          "ref": "2000, Peter Billingham, Sensing the City Through Television: Urban Identities in Fictional Drama, page 50",
          "text": "First few months in, I was arsey as hell. Thought they were a right bunch of wankers.",
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        {
          "ref": "2002 October 28, Simon Hattenstone, quoting Sophie Ellis-Bextor, “Sophie's world”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "\"Oh, we had that singer in the other day and they were really arsey with us, and we only kept them waiting half an hour' - and I go, 'Hang on a minute, that's a long time and they've probably been doing lots of work that day and I think that it's actually justified for them to get annoyed.'\"",
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          "ref": "2007 April 30, Jon Bentham, “How to...... do work experience”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Work experience as an arsey teenager is pretty straightforward: disappear into the storeroom, smoke a few cigarettes, text your mates and watch the minute hand tick slowly by. If there's nowhere suitable to hide, all you need is a vacant computer and you can chat to your skiving associate in the building next door.",
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          "text": "Maybe Hanna Frost, for all of her arsey mannerisms, really did know what she was doing.",
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        "Unpleasant, especially in a sarcastic, grumpy or haughty manner."
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          "haughty",
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        "(British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Unpleasant, especially in a sarcastic, grumpy or haughty manner."
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      "glosses": [
        "Lucky."
      ],
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          "Lucky",
          "lucky"
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        "(Australia, slang) Lucky."
      ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈɑː(ɹ)si/"
    },
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      "rhymes": "-ɑː(ɹ)si"
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          "text": "Work experience as an arsey teenager is pretty straightforward: disappear into the storeroom, smoke a few cigarettes, text your mates and watch the minute hand tick slowly by. If there's nowhere suitable to hide, all you need is a vacant computer and you can chat to your skiving associate in the building next door.",
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          "haughty",
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        "(British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Unpleasant, especially in a sarcastic, grumpy or haughty manner."
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        "Ireland",
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        "Lucky."
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        "(Australia, slang) Lucky."
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