Ticked off

The ‘chastised’ meaning is of UK military origin and dates from the early 20th century and is now rather outmoded. It is usually applied to a child or subordinate. the earliest known citation of it in print is in a 1915 letter which was later published in Wilfred Owen’s Collected Letters:

“He has been ‘ticked-off’ four or five times for it; but is not yet shot at dawn.”

The more recent American meaning of ‘annoyed’ is unrelated and dates from around the 1960s; for example, this piece from The Charleston Gazette, April 1969:

“The letter that really ticked me off was the one from the wife who said she felt like a prostitute.”