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"irritable" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often crabby (6 letters).
Definitions
easily irritated or annoyed
Word origin
Borrowed from French irritable, from Latin irritabilis.
Used in a sentence
“an irritable old man”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Easily annoyed”9 letters
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