Reverse Dictionary: ILL-NATURED

ADJECTIVES
► ALFISH ill-natured, cross, fretful, mischievous, ‘elvish’ → 1887 Sc.
► ALLAGRUGOUS ill-natured, discontented-looking, morose, disagreeable → 1742 Sc. 
► ATTERN ill-natured, cruel, fierce → c950 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► ATTERY ill-natured, irascible, virulent → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► CAGGY ill-natured, stomachful → 1855 Eng. dial.
► CAINJING ill-natured, peevish → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CANKERED ill-natured, spiteful; ill-tempered, crabbed → 1513
► CANKERLY ill-natured, spiteful; ill-tempered, crabbed → 1580 obs.
► CANKERSOME ill-natured, bad-tempered, crabbed, cross-grained → 1786 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► CANTANKERATE ill-natured → 1914 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► CANTANKEROUS showing an ill-natured disposition; ill-conditioned and quarrelsome, perverse, cross-grained → 1772
► CAPERNOITED ill-natured, fractious; crabbed, irritable, peevish; snappish → 1719 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► CATTED bad-tempered, cross, ill-natured → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DOGGISH ill-natured, malicious, spiteful, bad-tempered; snappish, snarling; cynical → a1425
► GROUTY ill-natured, sulky, cross, surly, peevish, sullen, ill-tempered, crabbed, grumpy, irritable → 1836 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► HASKY ill-natured, harsh, severe → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► IGNORANT ill-natured, arrogant, bullying → 1940s W. Indies & Black British sl.
► ILL-BISTIT ill-natured, wicked → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► ILL-FAVOURED ill-natured, ill-tempered; mean → 1895 Sc.
► ILL-KEESTERD ill-natured, surly, full of unpleasant devices → 1929 Sc.
► KAA-WAA ► KAW-WAW ill-natured, cross-grained → 1859 Eng. dial.
► MISBEHOLDEN ill-natured, offensive, disobliging → 1838 Sc. & Eng. dial.  
► NABAL ill-natured, surly; churlish; narrow-minded → 1861 chiefly Sc.
► NAGGIE ill-natured, cross-tempered, touchy → 1838 Sc.
► NAGGLY ill-natured, touchy, fretful, sarcastic, quarrelsome → 1887 Sc.
► NAGGY ill-natured, bad-tempered, testy, cross, snappish, querulous; shrewish; irritable → 1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► NAGGY AS A THORN-STICK ill-natured, quarrelsome → 19C Sc.
► NEBBY ill-natured, sharp; impertinent → 1873 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► NEBSIE ► NEBSY ill-natured, sharp in manner; impertinent → 1894 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► NETHERY ill-natured, sarcastic → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NETTERIE ill-natured, sarcastic → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► NIP-SICKER ill-natured, brusque, very positive and decided in one’s manner and opinions → 1866 Sc. 
► NITTERET ill-natured, sulky-looking, crusty → 1866 Sc.
► RUBARBATIVE ill-natured, crabbed, cross-grained, bad-tempered → 1600 obs.
► TANKERSOME ill-natured, fractious, fretful, cross, peevish; unreasonably quarrelsome → 19C Eng. dial. obs.
► TARN’D ill-natured, fierce, crabbed → 1805 Eng. dial.
► TARVEAL ill-natured, fretful → 1742 Sc. obs.
► TASH ill-natured, fretful, captious, hard to please; forward → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► TATTERY ill-natured, cross, peevish, ill-tempered → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TETHER-FACED having an ill-natured aspect → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► TOOTHY ill-natured, peevish → 1691 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► WICKED ill-natured, savage, vicious → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► YAUPING ill-natured, peevish → 1825 Eng. dial.
► ZOWER-ZAPPED ill-natured, crabbed, sour in temper: usually applied to women → 19C Eng. dial.

ADVERBS
► CANKEREDLY in an ill-natured manner; spitefully, malignantly; peevishly → 1535

NOUNS
► ATTER ill nature, quarrelsomeness → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► BACK-HASH ► BAG-HASH ill-natured talk → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► CANTANKER an ill-natured, quarrelsome, perverse, or cross-grained disposition → 1825 obs.
► ILL-GIVENESS ill nature → 1881 Eng. dial.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ADDERCAP ► ATTERCAP ► ATTERCOP an ill-natured, peevish person; one of a malignant disposition → c1505 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► BANGREE ► BANGREL an ill-natured, ungovernable woman → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► BESOM an ill-natured woman; a mischievous girl or young woman → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.;
► BICHT an ill-natured, cross, or troublesome person; generally applied to a child or an aged person → 1887 Sc. obs.
► BISHOP an ill-natured, peevish, or cantankerous boy → 1825 Sc.
► BISSOM ► BIZZOM ► BIZZUM an ill-natured woman; a mischievous girl or young woman → 1808 Sc. & Ireland
► EDDERCAP  ► ETHERCAP ► ETTERCAP  an ill-natured, petulant, malignant, captious person → 1725 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FUZZ TAIL an ill-natured or unpopular person → 1930 sl.
► FUZZY TAIL an ill-natured person → 1926 sl.
► GAABRIL an ill-natured, big, uncomely person → 1866 Sc.
► GANSEL an ill-natured, sour person → 1813 Sc. obs.
► ILL-MITE an ill-natured person → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► KADDIE an ill-natured or mischievous person → 1866 Sc.
► MOLLIGRUBS ► MOLLYGRUBS an ill-natured, sulky person → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOLLIGRUMPHS an ill-natured, sulky person → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► MOOLIGRUBS an ill-natured, sulky person → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NASH-GAB ► NASH-GOB an ill-natured, impertinent fellow → 1818 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► NATTER-CROP an ill-natured, petulant, malignant, captious person → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NEDDARCAP ► NEDDERCAP an ill-natured, cross-grained person, esp. a child → 19C Sc.
► NETHER an ill-natured or irritable person → 1924 Sc. 
► NIP-SICKER an ill-natured, brusque person → 1964 Sc. 
► PARTAN an ill-natured or ill-favoured person → 1896 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► PATCH an ill-natured, disobliging person → 1900 Eng. dial.
► RUDAS an ill-natured, ugly old woman; a virago → 1725 Sc.
► SAMMY ► ZAMMY an ill-natured fellow; an effeminate weakling; a lunatic → 1876 Eng. dial.
► SCRAE ► SKRAE an ill-natured, carping person → 1853 Sc. 
► SCRANNY an ill-natured, wrinkled old woman → 1824 Sc.
► SKELLAT an ill-natured, shrewish woman → 1810 Sc.
► SNOP-SNARL an ill-natured person → 19C Eng. dial.
► SOUR-SOP ► ZOURZOP an ill-natured, cross, or crabbed person → 1895 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TABBY an ill-natured or spiteful female gossip or tattler → 1761 
► TARRANT an ill-natured, crabbed person → 1703 Eng. dial.
► TARTAR an ill-natured, shrewish woman, a vixen, a termagant → 1663
► WILD CAT an ill-natured, spiteful person → 1825 Sc.
► WORRY-CARL ► WORRY-CARLE an ill-natured, snarling person; one who is dreaded as a bugbear → 1802 Sc.

VERBS
► SNOP-SNARL to be ill-natured → 19C Eng. dial.
► YARM to speak ill-naturedly; to scold; to find fault, to grumble → 1790 Eng. dial.