CANTANKEROUS
ADJECTIVES
– cantankerous TANKEROUS Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– cantankerous, contrary; obstinate or stubborn, esp. to the point of causing annoyance or frustration CUSSED 1858
– cantankerous, crabbed ILL-RUN 1880 Sc.
– cantankerous, cross-grained CANTANKERED 1862 Eng. dial.
– cantankerous, cross-grained NIRPED 1929 Sc.
– cantankerous, crusty, peevish ETTEN 1911 Sc.
– cantankerous, ill-natured, malevolent ILL-CANKERT 1856 Sc.
– cantankerous, peevish, crabbed, irascible, given to sharp caustic talk GNATTERIE; NATTERIE 1825 Sc.
– cantankerous, peevish, crabbed, irascible, given to sharp caustic talk NITTERIE; NITTERY 1825 Sc.
– cantankerous, perverse, contrary; stubbornly intransigent or obstructive BLOODY-MINDED 1935
– cantankerous, quarrelsome, argumentative; unruly, mean, bad RANTANKEROUS c1832 US colloq.
– cantankerous, spiteful IRPED 1922 Sc.
– cantankerous; said of a quarrelsome woman BRABAGIOUS 1894 Eng. dial.
NOUNS
1852 ► CUSSEDNESS cantankerousness; obstinacy, stubbornness; contrariness → colloq.
NOUNS, PERSON
– a cantankerous, argumentative woman; a scold; a passionate, boisterous, imperious woman BARGE 1880 Sc. & Ireland
– a cantankerous, cheeky, or forward woman BISIM; BISOM 1951 Ulster sl.
– a cantankerous, cheeky, or forward woman BIZZUM 1808 Sc. & Ireland
– a cantankerous, crabbed, peevish, diminutive person WIRR 1825 Sc.
– a cantankerous, cross-grained, and perverse person; a dishonest person CROOKED STICK 1846-8
– a cantankerous, disagreeable person HORNET Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– a cantankerous or foolish old person OLD COOT M18 sl.
– a cantankerous, peevish boy BISHOP 1825 Sc.
– a cantankerous, peevish, ill-humoured person; one who tries to get his own way by persistent nagging or fractiousness TARRAN 1802 Sc.
– a cantankerous person NETHER’S NEB 1939 Sc.
– a cantankerous person TAE 1921 Sc.
– a cantankerous person; an odd, queer or eccentric person TIKE; TYKE 1740 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– a cantankerous person; a quarrelsome person PICK-QUARREL 1530 obs.
– a cantankerous person; a term of abuse SAUERKRAUT; SOURCROUT; SOURKRAUT 1841 sl., chiefly Aust. & US
– a cantankerous person; a term of abuse SAUERKRAUTER 1841 sl., chiefly Aust. & US
– a cantankerous, rambunctious, or bad-tempered man BILLY GOAT 1921 US sl.
– a cantankerous, verbally abusive woman BLADE 1996 Ulster sl.
– a cantankerous, verbally abusive woman TACKLE 1998 Ulster sl.
VERBS
1759 ► HAVE A WORM IN ONE’S TONGUE to be cantankerous; to snarl and bite like a mad dog
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