butthurt

adjective

butt·​hurt ˈbət-ˌhərt 

variants or less commonly butt-hurt or butt hurt

informal

: having or showing unjustified or excessive anger, offense, distress, or resentment

The frontman owes the crowd an apology for getting butthurt over something so innocent.

—Caleb Dennis

… men get so butthurt when their girlfriends are funnier than they are …

—Erin Gloria Ryan

… a butthurt response over something that wasn't even an insult …

—@CactusCracktus, on Reddit

Scads of peoples are so butt-hurt that the entire cast wasn't nominated for an Oscar.

—Mark Tullis

broadly : having or showing hurt feelings

"And at first I was sad. Because I thought you, like, replaced me with Daniel, or something. So I was kind of butthurt."

—Via Bleidner

butthurt noun

or less commonly butt-hurt

Wow! The amount of childish butthurt over this is hilarious.

—Dillard Logsdon, quoted in The News-Enterprise (Elizabethtown, Kentucky)

Wall Street is full of butthurt that wireless telecom companies caved to consumer pressures and reintroduced 'unlimited' data plans …

—Dominic Gwinn

Word History

Etymology

butt entry 1 + hurt, past participle of hurt entry 1

First Known Use

1996, in the meaning defined above