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. |