&c adj.; susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness,
acerbity, protervity; pugnacity &c (contentiousness) 720.
excitability &c 825; bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper,
irritable &c adj.. temper; genus irritabile [Lat.], hot blood.
ill humor &c (sullenness) 901.1; asperity &c; churlishness &c
(discourtesy) 895.
huff &c (resentment) 900; a word and a blow.
Sir Fretful Plagiary; brabbler†, Tartar; shrew, vixen, virago,
termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe; porcupine; spitfire; fire eater &c
(blusterer) 887; fury &c (violent person) 173.
V. be irascible &c adj.; have a temper &c n., have a devil in one; fire
up &c (be angry) 900.
Adj. irascible; bad-tempered, ill-tempered; irritable, susceptible;
excitable &c 825; thin-skinned &c (sensitive) 822; fretful, fidgety; on
the fret.
hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy†, tetchy;
like touchwood, like tinder; huffy, pettish, petulant; waspish,
snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, sudden and
quick in quarrel [As You Like It].
querulous, captious, moodish†; quarrelsome, contentious,
disputatious; pugnacious &c (bellicose) 720; cantankerous, exceptious†;
restiff &c (perverse) 901.1 [Obs.]; churlish &c (discourteous) 895.
cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross
as a dog, cross as the tongs; fractious, peevish, acariâtre†.
in a bad temper; sulky &c 901.1; angry &c 900.
resentful, resentive†; vindictive &c 919.
Int. pish!,
Phr. a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes [Fr.]; quamvis tegatur proditur
vultu furor [Lat.] [Seneca]; vino tortus et ira [Lat.] [Horace].
901a. Sullenness — N. sullenness &c adj.; morosity†, spleen;
churlishness &c (discourtesy) 895; irascibility &c 901.
moodiness &c adj.; perversity; obstinacy &c 606; torvity†,
spinosity†; crabbedness &c adj.. ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad
humor; sulks, dudgeon, mumps†, dumps, doldrums, fit of the sulks,
bouderie [Fr.], black looks, scowl; grouch; huff &c (resentment) 900.
V. be sullen &c adj.; sulk; frown, scowl, lower, glower, gloam†, pout,
have a hangdog look, glout†.
Adj. sullen, sulky; ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill-
disposed; grouty [U.S.]; in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a
shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor;
out of temper, out of humor; knaggy†, torvous†, crusty, crabbed; sour,
sour as a crab; surly &c (discourteous) 895.
moody; spleenish†, spleenly†; splenetic, cankered.
cross, crossgrained†; perverse, wayward, humorsome†; restiff†,
restive; cantankerous, intractable, exceptious†, sinistrous†, deaf to
reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward; cussed [U.S.].
dogged &c (stubborn) 606.
grumpy, glum, grim, grum†, morose, frumpish; in the sulks &c n.;
out of sorts; scowling, glowering, growling; grouchy.
peevish &c (irascible) 901.