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arsey

/ˈɑː(ɹ)si/adjective

arsey is an adjective meaning “Unpleasant, especially in a sarcastic, grumpy or haughty manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-R-S-E-Y, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does arsey mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    CommonwealthIrelandUKslangUnpleasant, especially in a sarcastic, grumpy or haughty manner.

  2. 2

    AustraliaslangLucky.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce arsey?

  • /ˈɑː(ɹ)si/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-arsey.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of arsey

  • more arsey comparative
  • most arsey superlative
  • arsy

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is arsey?

Arsey appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does arsey come from?

From arse + -y.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).