Modifying Another Word

• very: Yet if you talk to them that way they get very shirty.

• really: Pass the Parcel can get horribly tense as hawk eyed mothers get really shirty if their kid doesn't have a go.

Modifies a noun

• dame: Nor that wasn't such a shirty dame, was it?

Used with adjective complement

• get: Pass the Parcel can get horribly tense as hawk eyed mothers get really shirty if their kid doesn't have a go.