Reverse Dictionary: ILL-HUMOURED

ADJECTIVES
1580 — CANKEROUS ill-humoured, crabbed
1580 — SICK OF THE SULLENS ill-humoured, very gloomy
1605 — DORTY spoiled, pettish, sullen, sulky, easily offended, ill-humoured; saucy, haughty, conceited, proud, stubborn; contemptuous → Sc.
1607 — HUMOURSOME subject to moods; whimsical, capricious; peevish, ill-humoured → arch.
1611 — IN THE SUDS in the sulks, in the blues; downcast, in the dumps; ill-humoured → Eng. dial.
1614 — SULLEN-SICK ill-humoured, very gloomy → obs.
1631 — IN THE SULLENS ill-humoured, very gloomy
1633 — SPLENITIVE  splenetic; irritable, morose, peevish, ill-humoured, quick-tempered, testy → obs.
1721 — GURLIE → GURLY surly, cross, crabbed, growly, ill-humoured, bad-tempered, sour-tempered → Sc.
1742 — CAPPIT crabbed, ill-humoured, quarrelsome, touchy → Sc.
1782 — FUSTY-RUSTY ill-humoured
1783 — GLOMPY sullen, morose, sour-looking; ill-humoured, low-spirited, grumpy → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1783 — GLUMFIE sullen, morose, sour-looking; ill-humoured, low-spirited, grumpy → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1783 — GLUMPY sullen, morose, sour-looking; ill-humoured, low-spirited, grumpy → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1786 — CANKERY ill-humoured, crabbed → Sc.
1790 — CALSHIE crabbed, ill-humoured, rude → Sc.
..19C — TANKERSOME fractious, fretful, cross, ill-humoured, ill-natured, peevish; unreasonably quarrelsome → Eng. dial. obs.
1810 — TIFFY pettish, ill-humoured
1816 — ORNERY ill-humoured and uncooperative → US sl.
1824 — GUMPLE-FOISTED sulky, in a bad humour, out of temper; ill-humoured → Sc.
1825 — CANSHIE cross, ill-humoured → Sc.
1825 — DORTED sulky, ill-humoured → Sc.
1825 — GARMUNSHACH → GARMUNSHOCH cross, ill-humoured → Sc. obs.
1825 — NETTLIE ill-humoured, peevish → Sc. 
1825 — TAIRDIE → TARDIE peevish, ill-humoured, sulky, sarcastic → Sc.
1835 — CANTANKERSOME cross-grained, ill-humoured → Amer. sl.
1837 — CACOCHYMICAL ill-humoured in disposition → arch.
1839 — GLUMP sullen, sulky, out of humour → Eng. dial.
1846 — ASHY very angry; ill-tempered; ill-humoured → Amer. dial.
1866 — ON NETTLES in a state of anxiety or suspense, impatient, ill-humoured → Sc. 
1894 — GRUMPLY surly, out of humour → Sc.
1895 — NETTLESOME ill-humoured, peevish, quarrelsome, exasperating → Eng. dial.
1896 — STUFFY sulky, obstinate, ill-humoured → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — ETERIE → ETRIE ill-humoured, ill-tempered; hot-headed, fiery, angry-looking → Sc. (Bk.)
1900 — GYREFUL fretful, ill-humoured, discontented → Sc. (Bk.)
1961 — CRAB perverse; ill-humoured, mean, cross → UK sl.

ADVERBS
1802 — SUMPHISHLY ill-humouredly, sullenly → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.

NOUNS
1538 — CANKEREDNESS malice, spite; ill-humour; crabbed temper
1632 — DORTS sulkiness, ill-humour; sulks → Sc.
1671 — FRUMPS sulks, ill-humour → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1727 — TIFF a slight outburst or fit of temper, pettishness, or ill-humour
1728 — DORTISHIP ill-humour, haughtiness, sauciness → Sc.
1751 — TIFT a slight fit of ill-humour or offendedness; a petty quarrel or disagreement → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1773 — TID a fit of ill-humour or temper → Sc.
1773 — TIG a pet; a fit of ill-humour → Sc.
1788 — THROW opposition; a fit of perversity or ill-humour; a quarrel, controversy → Sc.
1790 — MIFF a slight quarrel or misunderstanding; a tiff; a fit of ill-humour, pettishness; a huff → Sc. & Eng. dial.
..19C — STRAMULLION a fit of ill-humour or bad temper; a display of pettishness → Sc.
..E19 — CAG sulkiness,  ill humour → Eng. dial.
..E19 — KAGG sulkiness,  ill humour → sl.
1825 — FANTEAG → FANTEAGUE → FANTIGUE → FANTIQUE a state of anxiety or excitement; an instance of this; a fit of ill-humour → Eng. dial.
1844 — GRUMPS the sulks; a fit of ill-humour
1846 — SUMPHISHNESS ill-humour, sullenness → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1861 — THE GRUMBLES ill humour → colloq.
1877 — TIFTER a fit of bad temper or ill-humour; a quarrel; a fight → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1889 — MAUNGE a fit of ill humour → Eng. dial.
1898 — AIRS fits of ill-humour; fretfulness → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — CANK a fit of  ill-humour → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — DIRDUM passion, ill-humour → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 — ILL-HYVER ill-humour → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 — THRUM a senseless, foolish whim; a fit of ill-humour or dissatisfaction → Sc. (Bk.)

NOUNS, PERSON
1706 — GIRN-AGAIN a peevish, ill-humoured person; a child who is habitually whimpering or fretting → Sc. obs.
1802 — TARRAN a passionate, brawling child; a peevish, cantankerous, ill-humoured person; one who tries to get his own way by persistent nagging or fractiousness; an exasperating person → Sc.
1900 — GIRNIE-GIB a peevish, ill-humoured person → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — GRUMP a gruff, grumpy, or ill-humoured person → colloq.

VERBS
1787 — TAKE THE TID to be ill-humoured or bad-tempered → Sc.
1804 — STRUM to be in a pettish humour; to be ill-humoured → Sc.
1811 — CAG IT to render sulky, ill-humoured → sl.
1839 — CANTANKERATE to provoke to anger, to rile; to produce strife; to make or become cross-grained, ill-humoured or disagreeable → Amer.
1867 — SUMPH to be ill-humoured, to be sulky → Sc.
1887 — MUMP → MUMP AROUND to act dejected or ill-humoured; to be irritable → Amer. dial.
1905 — THRUM to act on a foolish whim; to become sulky or ill-humoured → Sc. (Bk.)