Definitions

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  • adjective Overly aggressive, irritable, or unreasonable, as from being overwhelmed by testosterone.

Etymologies

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From testes, by analogy to hysterical.

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Examples

  • I once came across the word “testerical” which I think was cooked up as sort of way of mocking the sexist etymology of the word hysterical and the gender stereotypes associated with it.

    Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

  • If kate is hysterical, that would certainly make the knuckle-draggers who comment at small dead brains testerical.

    Oooooooooh ... we're scared. CC 2008

  • The Butch Bakery is the sad, testerical endgame in defining masculinity in contradistinction to the feminine: What makes me a man is simply

    Shakesville Melissa McEwan 2010

  • The Butch Bakery is the sad, testerical endgame in defining masculinity in contradistinction to the feminine: What makes me a man is simply

    Shakesville Melissa McEwan 2010

  • Pat Robertson and his acolytes into a full-metal testerical rightwingnutter melt-down.

    Progressive Bloggers 2009

  • The testerical response in that "revolutionary" audience: "TAKE HER OFF THE STAGE AND f*ck HER!"

    Trusting in Blind Stupidity 2006

  • The testerical response in that "revolutionary" audience: "TAKE HER OFF THE STAGE AND f*ck HER!"

    Trusting in Blind Stupidity 2006

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