Irritable or bad-tempered as a result of hunger..
Irritable or bad-tempered as a result of hunger.
Narrower than anger or general irritation/annoyance in pinning the bad temper to a specific cause — hunger — and typically implying a transient, somewhat self-aware, often jocular mood that resolves once one eats. Where irritation and annoyance are cause-neutral, hangry diagnoses the trigger (“I get hangry before lunch”). Informal and usually light in register.
A blend (portmanteau) of hungry + angry.
A modern coinage popularized in the 21st century and added to the Oxford English Dictionary in January 2018. First-attestation differs by authority (Merriam-Webster dates a first use to 1918; Oxford's earliest evidence is 1956), so the precise origin is unsettled.
An informal, sometimes faddish portmanteau; reputable authorities disagree on its earliest attestation (1918 per Merriam-Webster vs. 1956 per Oxford).