Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) angry.

1930		G. Milburn ‘The Dealer Gets It All’ in Hobo’s Hornbook 150: Now I was feelin’ salty and I glued Squire Grimes’ hat, / When the town clown got hooty, and he flailed me with his bat.
1940		S. Longstreet Decade 194: Hooty bastards, they were.