CROSS-GRAINED
ADJECTIVES
– cross-grained RILY Bk1903 sl.
– cross-grained, bad-tempered ABSTRAKLOUS Bk1905 Sc.
– cross-grained, bad-tempered CANKERSOME 1786 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– cross-grained, bad-tempered CANKERY 1870 Eng. dial.
– cross-grained, cantankerous CANTANKERED 1862 Eng. dial.
– cross-grained, cantankerous NIRPED 1929 Sc.
– cross-grained, crabbed TAUTIE a1838 Sc.
– cross-grained, crabbed, bad-tempered, ill-natured RUBARBATIVE 1600 obs.
– cross-grained, disagreeable MAGGY Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– cross-grained, grumbling, quarrelsome NANGLY Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– cross-grained, ill-humoured CANTANKERSOME 1835 Amer. sl.
– cross-grained, ill-natured KAA-WAA 1859 Eng. dial.
– cross-grained, ill-natured KAW-WAW 1859 Eng. dial.
– cross-grained, ill-tempered CAMSHACK 1787 Sc.
– cross-grained, ill-tempered NURLY 1871 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– cross-grained, ill-tempered, surly ILL-HAIRED 1825 Sc.
– cross-grained, intractable ILL-MAIRED Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– cross-grained, peevish, angry HACKLED Bk1905 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– cross-grained, perverse, obstinate; rebellious; morally wrong THRAWN 1737 Sc.
– cross-grained, refractory ILL-TWARTENED 1929 Sc.
– cross-grained, showing an ill-natured disposition; ill-conditioned and quarrelsome CANTANKEROUS 1772
NOUNS
1825 ► CANTANKER a cross-grained, ill-natured, quarrelsome, or perverse disposition → obs.
NOUNS, PERSON
– a cross-grained, big, untidy, coarse person HARL; HARLE 1824 Sc.
– a cross-grained, cantankerous, and perverse person; a dishonest person CROOKED STICK 1846-8
– a cross-grained, ill-natured, person, especially a child NEDDERCAP B1900 Sc.
– a cross-grained, ill-tempered, or nagging wife CROOKED RIB Bk1903 sl.
– a cross-grained, mischievous person HEWL 1824 Sc.
– a cross-grained, old woman WICKER 1824 Sc. obs.
– a cross-grained, old woman WICKERTON 1824 Sc. obs.
– a cross-grained or quarrelsome person, esp. a woman CATAMARAN 1833 colloq.
– a cross-grained person, one given to opposition DIZZERWITCH 19C Eng. dial.
– a cross-grained, surly, old person; a close-fisted, stingy man HUNKS 1602
– a cross-grained, unmanageable fellow OFF-OX 1848 Amer. dial.
VERBS
1839 ► CANTANKERATE to make or become cross-grained, ill-humoured or disagreeable; to provoke to anger → Amer.
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