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Shiftier vs Shirtier - What's the difference?

shiftier | shirtier |

As adjectives the difference between shiftier and shirtier

is that shiftier is comparative of shifty while shirtier is comparative of shirty.

shiftier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (shifty)

    • shifty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having the appearance of someone dishonest, criminal or unreliable; such as someone with shifty eyes .
    • He was a shifty character in a seedy bar and I checked my wallet was still there after talking to him.
  • Subject to frequent changes in direction.
  • * 1971 , Henry Handel Richardson, Ultima Thule (page 121)
    • Off he raced, shuffling his bare feet through the hot, dry, shifty sand. But it was no good: she didn't care.
  • Full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.
    • (Wright)
  • * Charles Kingsley
    • Shifty and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure.

    shirtier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (shirty)

    • shirty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (informal) Ill-tempered or annoyed.
    • I didn't ask my father for money, figuring he'd get shirty about it since I had quit school and had no job.
  • * 1897 , :
    • "You ain't shirty 'cause I kissed yer last night?"
    "I'm not shirty ; but it was pretty cool, considerin' like as I didn't know yer."

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