EXCITABILITY, EXCITABLE
ADJECTIVES
1690 — WARM-HEADED having a heated fancy or excitable temperament
1769 — CAMSTAIRY — CAMSTEERY — CAMSTERRY — CAMSTRARIE perverse, unmanageable, riotous; given to quarrelling; excitable → Sc.
..19C — TUTTLE excitable, short-tempered → Eng. dial.
1825 — NERVISH nervous, excitable, easily agitated → Sc.
1838 — ALL FIRE AND TOW irascible, excitable, hot-tempered → Amer. dial.
1879 — BEE-HEADED harebrained, flighty, excitable; light-headed, unsettled
1887 — BISSY cross, ill-tempered, angry; easily provoked to anger, excitable → Sc.
1897 — OPLOPIN uplifted, excitable; jumping at hasty conclusions; easily angered → Sc.
1905 — HAIZY hasty, excitable → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1912 — EASY ON THE TRIGGER quick-tempered, excitable, quick to anger → Amer. sl.
1922 — SHORT-PATIENCED quick-tempered; excitable; touchy; irritable; easily offended; impatient → Amer. dial.
1922 — SHORT-PATIENT quick-tempered; excitable; touchy; irritable; easily offended; impatient → Amer. dial.
1942 — HYPER hyperactive, excitable, highly-strung; extraordinarily energetic → sl.
1945 — EASY ON THE TRIGGER excitable, quick to anger → US Western usage (Bk.)
1953 — UNCOOL excitable; tending to show your feelings more than is prudent or advisable → US sl.
1966 — SQUIRRELLY belligerent, excitable → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1598 — TINDER-BOX a person or thing that is highly excitable, explosive, etc.; a potential source of widespread violence; a source of heated strife
1689 — HEAT passionateness, excitability, ardour of temperament → obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
1598 — TINDER-BOX a person that is highly excitable, explosive, etc.
1684 — WARM HEAD a warm-headed, excitable, impetuous person → obs.
1850 — ARAB any wild-looking person; an excitable or passionate person → Amer. sl.
..20C — CALEERY a giddy, hysterical person; a mischievous, scatterbrained, overexcitable person → Ireland
..20C — WIRE an overstimulated person; an anxious, excitable person → Amer. sl.
1960 — FROTHER an excitable person, esp. one readily provoked to outrage in defense of a principle
1982 — HITZKOP a hothead, an excitable person → Jewish (Bk.)
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