Testerical

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Overly aggressive, irritable, or unreasonable, as from being overwhelmed by testosterone.

    "If the police at the G20 protests were pumped-up, testerical, itching for a fight, it was partly because their commanding officers have spent years blurring the distinction between peaceful campaigners and terrorists."

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"If the police at the G20 protests were pumped-up, testerical, itching for a fight, it was partly because their commanding officers have spent years blurring the distinction between peaceful campaigners and terrorists."

Etymology

From testes, by analogy to hysterical. Coined by Juli Loesch in 1972 along with testeria.

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