streaked adj.
(US) irritable, irascible, ill-tempered, embarrassed.
Yankey in England 57: Oh, —the good, gracious suzz! how streaked I feel all over! | ||
Clockmaker I 38: The neighbours snickered a good deal, and the Elder felt pretty streaked. | ||
Biglow Papers 1st ser. 14: But when it comes to bein’ killed, — I tell ye I felt streaked / The first time ever I found out why baggonets were peaked. | ||
Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 62: I felt streaked enough, you may depend. | ||
City of the Saints 279: Wal now [...] guess I’m kinder streakt. | ||
Americanisms 637: Streaked or streaky, well known to English low life, are favorite words with Western men, to whom ‘to feel streaked,’ conveys the utmost apprehension of which they are capable. |