Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

&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.