FRACTIOUS
ADJECTIVES
1598 — FRAMPOLD fractious, ill-tempered, cross, disagreeable, peevish, fretful → obs.
1661 — PETULCOUS fractious; wantonly aggressive, butting → obs.
1719 — CAPERNOITED fractious, crabbed, irritable, peevish; snappish; ill-natured
1736 — FASHIOUS — FASHOUS fractious, peevish, fretting, esp. of children; fussy, fastidious
1768 — CAPERNOITED peevish, ill-natured, crabbed, irritable, fractious → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1776 — CAMSTAIRY fractious, obstinately perverse, unruly, or wilful
1776 — CRABBY fractious, peevish, bad-tempered, cross-grained
1790 — TEATY — TEEDY — TEETY fractious, peevish, fretful, cross; used esp. of children
1812 — PENSY of children: fractious, fretful, peevish, complaining → obs.
..19C — FRAB fractious, cross, ill-tempered, peevish
..19C — FRABBY fractious, cross, ill-tempered, peevish
..19C — TANKERSOME fractious, fretful, cross, ill-humoured, ill-natured, peevish → obs.
..19C — TEENY fractious, fretful; said of a little child
1828 — TEETHY fractious, fretful, tetchy; generally applied to children or infants
1866 — TAISEY — TEASY — TEAZY fractious, fretful; ill-tempered
1890 — MAGGOTY fractious, queer-tempered, cross, ill-tempered, irritable
1892 — TADIOUS — TAGEOUS — TEDDIOUS — TEDIOUS fractious, peevish, fretful, irritable, difficult to please
1905 — TESSY fractious, angry, cross, testy (Bk.)
NOUNS PERSON
1802 — TARRAN one who tries to get his own way by persistent nagging or fractiousness; an exasperating person
1923 — KAE IN THE KIRK-RIGGIN’ a noisy, fractious child
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