| English term or phrase: chippy | Jennifer Saunders:
And we did the cabaret, because Dawn was always a bit chippy about the actors, because we were on a teaching course… And she was always a little bit foo those actors think they can act, think we are just teachers, and I said well we are just teachers, and they are the actors. Foo those actors. |
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| Selected answer:touchy | Explanation:
the actors 'touched on a raw nerve', wound her up a bit, because she thought that they thought they were better than them. Dawn and Jennifer were doing a teacher training course rather than a drama course, so couldn't possibly be taken seriously as actors (can they be taken seriously full stop??!!)
Some synonyms based around quarrelsome, including 'chippy'...
'bloody-minded' is another possibility...
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quarrelsome
Function: adjective
Definition: disagreeable
Synonyms: argumentative, bad-tempered, bellicose, belligerent, bitchy, brawling, cantankerous, cat-and-dog, chippy, choleric, churlish, combative, contentious, crabby, cross, disputatious, dissentious, excitable, fiery, fractious, gladiatorial, hasty, hotheaded, huffy, impassioned, irascible, irritable, litigious, ornery, passionate, peevish, pettish, petulant, pugnacious, querulous, snappy, tempestuous, thin-skinned, touchy, truculent, turbulent, unruly, violent, war !!!!!
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jerrie
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peer agreement (net): +5
