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A rather posh, old-fashioned way of expressing someone's unhappiness. The closest equivalents would be CROSS or MAD.
From the Derek & Clive album "Ad Nauseam" (1978) :

CLIVE:
Oh, gosh! 'Oh! I'm done for!' I thought: 'Crumbs! If I go to Sir's study he'll get jolly BATEY and probably do all sorts of things'. And when we got in there he said, "I'm jolly cross with you .....for looking at, at Wiggins playing with his willy!"
by CrazyToad August 5, 2018
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