shiesty
adj.— «“Bean’s a shiesty fighter,” he said. Shiesty? “He didn’t know what he was doing. So how did I know what he would do?”» —“Holyfield becomes champion talker, too” by Mark Whicker Orange County Register (California) Mar. 7, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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