Definition of "offishness" [offishness]

• Disposition to be offish; unapproachableness: implying the inclination to take offense readily. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Phil was teased by him now and again for his "offishness;" but Janice carefully managed that their interviews were not held in the presence of her parents, and so the elders did not come to a realising sense of the condition, but really believed that the courtship was advancing with due progress to the port of matrimony."
• "And by the same token, how was I to guess that her brother Pat's offishness with me was anything else than temperamental gloominess of spirit?"
• "To clarify, the "nonsense" is Pelosi's stand-offishness and the media infatuation with a meaningless gesture."