Reverse Dictionary: ILL-TEMPERED

ADJECTIVES
► ASHY ill-tempered, very angry; ill-humoured → 1846 Amer. dial.
► ATRY ► ATTERY ill-tempered, irritable, fretful, grim → 1742 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► ATTERN-TEMPER’T ill-tempered, vindictive → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BISSY ill-tempered, cross, angry; easily provoked to anger, excitable → 1887 Sc.
► BLACK-LOOKING ill-tempered, sullen → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CAGGY ill-tempered, ready to quarrel, splenetic → 1855 Eng. dial.
► CAINGY ill-tempered, irritable, cross, peevish → 1778 Eng. dial.
► CALLETING ill-tempered, scolding, quarrelsome → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CALLETY ill-tempered, scolding, quarrelsome → 1889 Eng. dial.
► CALSHIE ill-tempered, crabbed, surly → 1873 Sc.
► CAMMED ill-tempered, cross → 1854 Eng. dial.
► CAMPY ill-tempered, quick-tempered → 1808 Sc.
► CAMSHACK ill-tempered, cross-grained → 1787 Sc.
► CANKERED ill-tempered, crabbed; ill-natured, spiteful → 1513
► CANKERLY ill-tempered, crabbed; ill-natured, spiteful → 1580 obs.
► CARNAPTIOUS  ► CURNAPTIOUS irritable, ill-tempered, quarrelsome → 1890 Sc.
► CATTY-CORNER ill-tempered, out of sorts, annoyed, upset → 1884 Amer. dial.
► CATTY-CORNERED ill-tempered, out of sorts, annoyed, upset → 1954 Amer. dial.
► CHUFFY1899ill-tempered, blunt, rude, surly → Amer. dial.
► CROSSWAYS ill-tempered, cross; in a bad humour; obstinate → 1906 Amer. dial.
► CROSSWISE ill-tempered, cross; in a bad humour; obstinate → 1906 Amer. dial.
► CRUMPSY ill-tempered, cross, grumpy → 19C Eng. dial.
► DODDY ill-tempered, cross; sulky → 1808 Sc.
► DOG-MEAN ill-tempered, malicious → 1914 Amer. dial.
► EAR-SORE ill-tempered, irritable, morose, peevish, quarrelsome → 1594 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► ETERIE ► ETRIE ill-tempered, ill-humoured, hot-headed, fiery, angry-looking → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► EVIL ill-tempered, cross, disagreeable, unpleasant, contentious, obnoxious → a1131
► FRAB ill-tempered, cross, fractious, peevish → 19C Eng. dial.
► FRABBY ill-tempered, cross, fractious, peevish → 19C Eng. dial.
► FRAMPOLD ill-tempered, cross, disagreeable, peevish, fretful, fractious, quarrelsome → 1598 obs. exc. Eng. dial. obs.
► FRATCHETY ill-tempered, irritable, peevish, cross, quarrelsome → 19C Eng. dial.
► FRUMPISH disposed to mock or flout; jesting, sneering; also, cross, ill-tempered → 1647
► GAMMY ill-tempered → 19C Amer.
► GAULISH ill-tempered, nagging → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GLUMPY ill-tempered, low-spirited grumpy; glum, sullen, sulky, morose, gloomy → 1780 chiefly Eng. dial.
► GLUMSH sulky, ill-tempered, in low spirits → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► GNATTERY ill-tempered, cross, peevish; petulant, fault-finding, grumbling, querulous → 1870 Sc. & Eng. dial
► GNIB stingy, mean; ill-tempered, curt in manner → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► GRANKY complaining, grumbling, ill-tempered; slightly unwell → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GROUCHY ill-tempered, irritable, grumpy, cross, sulky → 1861 colloq.
► GROUTY ill-tempered, irritable, sulky, cross, surly, peevish, sullen, ill-natured, crabbed, grumpy → 1836 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► GRUBBY testy, ill-tempered, peevish → 1866 Eng. dial.
► HAINISH ill-tempered, awkward → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ILL ill-tempered, unpleasant → 1887 Amer. sl.
► ILL-BLAINED ill-tempered, irritable, morose → 1887 Eng. dial.
► ILL-BLENDED ill-tempered, irritable, morose → 1887 Eng. dial.
► ILL-CONTRIVED ill-tempered, badly behaved, tricky, mischievous → 1880 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► ILL-CONTRIVING ill-tempered, badly behaved, tricky, mischievous → 1880 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► ILL-FAVOURED ill-tempered; ill-natured; mean → 1895 Sc.
► ILL-GIVEN ill-tempered, evil-minded; prone to speak or do evil → 1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► ILL-HYVERED ill-tempered → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► ILL-TWINED ill-tempered, irritable, morose → 1887 Sc.
► ILL-WILLED ► ILL-WILLIED ill-tempered, sulky → 1898 Sc.
► JUNTOUS ill-tempered, sullen, captious, surly, morose → 1875 Eng. dial.
► KAFTY ill-tempered → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► KVETCHY ill-tempered, irritable; given to complaining or criticizing → 1965 US colloq., chiefly Jewish usage
► LUNGEOUS ill-tempered, rough-mannered, violent in play → 1787 Eng. dial.
► MAGGOTISH ill-tempered, irritable → 20C Aust. sl.
► MAGGOTTY ► MAGGOTY ill-tempered, irritable, queer-tempered, fractious, cross → 1890 Eng. dial.
► MALTALENT ill-tempered → a1578 obs.
► MAUNGY ill-tempered, cross, peevish; complaining → 1865 Eng. dial.
► MEANER THAN PUSSLEY extremely mean or ill-tempered → 1853 Amer. dial.
► MELANCHOLIAN ill-tempered, addicted to causeless anger → 1390 obs.
► NANGING ill-tempered, worrying → 1864 Eng. dial.
► NARKY ill-tempered, vexed, angry, bad-tempered → 1895 Eng. dial.
► NASTY ill-tempered; disagreeable → 1874 colloq.
► NATTLED ill-tempered, irritable, cross → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NAZY ► NAZZY ill-tempered, irritable, peevish, irritable, cross; low-spirited → 1878 Eng. dial.
► NEWKY ► NOOKY ill-tempered, cross, ill to deal with → 1875 Eng. dial.
► NIGGLY ill-tempered, obsessed with irrelevancies and petty problems → 1959 sl.
► NUNTY ill-tempered, cross, sulky → 1894 Eng. dial.
► NURLY ill-tempered, cross-grained → 1871 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► OFF THE HOOK ► OFF THE HOOKS ill-tempered, peevish, in a state → 1612 sl.
► ORDINARY ill-tempered, unpleasant, troublesome, unruly, obstinate → 1800 Amer. dial.
► ORNERY ill-tempered, unpleasant, troublesome, unruly, obstinate → 1862 Amer. dial.
► PISSED OF A NETTLE ill-tempered, waspish → 1828 Eng. dial.
► QUANT ill-tempered, short-tempered → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUEER ill-tempered, captious; unsociable from some fancied slight or insult → 1885 Eng. dial.
► RADGY ill-tempered, angry, excited, violent, mad → 19C Eng. dial.
► RAFTY ill-tempered, difficult to manage → 19C Eng. dial.
► RAGGY ill-tempered, cross → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RED-NECKED ill-tempered, bad-tempered, angry → 1942 Amer. sl.
► REMUCE ill-tempered, cross → 1904 obs. (Bk.)
► RUNTY ill-tempered, surly; obstinate → 1823 Eng. dial.
► SALTY ill-tempered, irritated, angry, resentful, annoyed → 1936 Amer. dial.
► SARCY ► SARKY ill-tempered, sarcastic → 20C sl., chiefly UK teen usage
► SAVIGEROUS ► SAVIGROUS ► SERGIVEROUS ► SERVIGOUS ► SERVIGROUS ► SEVIGROUS ► SURVIGEROUS ► SURVIGOROUS ► SURVIGROUS ► SUVIGROUS ill-tempered, headstrong, obstinate, strong-willed → 1835 Amer. dial.
► SCALY ill-tempered, grumpy → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCRANNY ill-tempered → 1881 Eng. dial.
► SHIRTY ill-tempered, irritable, cross; angry, esp. if only temporarily → 1846 sl.
► SHITTY ill-tempered, irritable, cross → 1846 sl.
► SNITCHY ill-tempered, irritable, tetchy → 1970s NZ sl.
► SNITTY ill-tempered → 2009 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SNORTY ill-tempered, irritable, disagreeable, captious → 1893 colloq.
► STULTITIOUS ill-tempered, sulky → 19C Eng. dial.
► TAISEY ► TEASY ► TEAZY ill-tempered, fretful, fractious → 1866 Eng. dial.
► TATTER ill-tempered, scolding, cross, peevish, grumblingly discontented → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TATTERY ill-tempered, cross, peevish, ill-natured → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TEETHY ill-tempered, peevish, cross; crabbed; pugnacious → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TETCHIOUS ill-tempered, irritable, tetchy, touchy, apt to take offense; peevish; testy, easily angered → 1913 Amer. dial.
► THIRTOVER ► THURTIFER ► THURTOVER ► THWARTOVER ill-tempered, cross, contrary, obstinate, morose, unruly → 1852 Eng. dial.
► THRAWART ill-tempered, perverse, stubborn, peevish → 1796 Sc.
► THRAWART-LIKE having the appearance of ill-temper or reluctance → 1768 Sc.
► THRAWN-GABBIT ill-tempered, peevish, quarrelsome; contradictory → 1897 Sc.
► THWART ► TWORT ill-tempered, cross, contrary, pert, saucy → 1894 Eng. dial.
► TIFTY given to fits of ill-temper; petulant, touchy, irritable, uncertain in temper → 1905 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TOITISH ill-tempered, irritable, flighty in temper; snappish → 1846 Eng. dial.
► TOUCHOUS ill-tempered, irritable; tetchy, touchy, apt to take offense; peevish; testy, easily angered → 1880 Amer. dial.
► TUTTY irritable, ill-tempered, testy, touchy, peevish, easily offended → 1809 Eng. dial.
► UGLY ill-tempered, sulky; angry, threatening; disagreeable → 1836 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
► UGLY-TEMPERED ill-tempered, passionate → 1890 Ireland & Eng. dial.
► UNCLE BERTIE ill-tempered, angry, esp. if only temporarily → 1992 UK rhyming sl. for ‘shirty’
► VINAIGROUS ill-tempered, vinegary, sour; sour-tempered, morose, crabbed, peevish → 1837
► WRAWFUL ill-tempered, peevish, crabbed; perverse, contrarious → c1386 obs. exc. Eng. dial.

ADVERBS
► ILL-PART ill-temperedly → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUEER ill-temperedly, unsociably → 1896 Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► DANDRUM an ill temper; a whim, a freak → 1866 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FANTEAGUE ► FANTIGUE a fit of ill temper, passion; a state of excitement, a commotion, a fuss → 1825 Eng. dial.
► FUFF a sudden burst of ill temper, anger, passion → 1834 chiefly Sc.
► GLUMPS the sulks, the dumps; a fit of ill-temper or sullenness → 1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GOOHOOPERS a condition of ill temper; a vague or imaginary unwellness; a depressed or gloomy mood → 1968 Amer. dial.
► MOLLYGRUBS ► MULLIGRUBS ill temper; depression of spirits; peevishness, sullenness; the sulks; ill temper → 1599
► RAN-DAN ► RAN-TAN an ill temper → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RED NECK ill temper; anger → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► REEDANESS a state of ill temper or irritation → 1880 Eng. dial.
► RILEMENT ill temper → 1903 sl. (Bk.)
► TANTRUM a burst of petulant ill-temper, seen as childish or actually produced by a child → 1714
► TANTRUM-FIT a fit of ill temper → 1870 Eng. dial.
► TILTISHNESS ill-temper; touchiness, irritability → 1746 Eng. dial. obs.
► TIRRAVEE ► TIRRYVEE a fit or display of ill temper or passion; an unchecked outburst → 1813 Sc.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ATTERMITE ► ATTRAMITE an ill-tempered, spiteful person → 1864 Eng. dial.
► AZZALD an ill-tempered person; an habitual fault-finder → 1881 Eng. dial.
► BALSCAT an ill-tempered person, a shrew, a crosspatch → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BAT an ill-tempered or ugly woman → 1886
► BEAR an ill-tempered, gruff person; a difficult person → 1638 sl.
► BIZZO an ill-tempered woman → 2001 US sl.
► BLACKHEART an ill-tempered or mean person → 1968 Amer. dial.
► BLASTIE an ill-tempered or unmanageable child → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► CRAB an ill-tempered, crabbed, cross-grained person → 1825
► CROOKED RIB an ill-tempered, cross-grained, or nagging wife → 1903 sl.  (Bk.)
► CROSS-PATCH an ill-tempered, cross person; a peevish person → 1699 colloq.
► GANGREL an ill-tempered, crabbed, crusty old man, rough, and churlish → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GEEGER an ill-tempered person → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GLOOMY-DRAWERS an ill-tempered, depressive person → 1989 sl., chiefly UK juvenile usage
► GLUM-POT an ill-tempered person → 1914 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► GNASH-GAB n. Bk1900 – a person who speaks harshly of others, or who gives an ill-tempered reply to a question asked → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GRIZZLE-POT an ill-tempered or melancholy person → 19C sl.
► GROUCH an ill-tempered, sullen, or sulky person →1900 colloq.
► GRUNT an ill-tempered, grouchy person; a mean, bad-tempered person → 1968 Amer. dial., derogatory
► HAG an ill-tempered, violent woman; a scold → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HARD-CASE an ill-tempered or quarrelsome person → World War II Amer. sl. 
► MULLIGRUBS a sulky or ill-tempered person → 1633
► NADGER an ill-tempered, sulky person → 1899 Ireland
► NANGNAIL an ill-tempered, troublesome person; a tyrant → 1856 Eng. dial.
► NIPSCART an ill-tempered, peevish, crabbed person → 1825 Sc. 
► OLD WIGSBY an ill-tempered, narrow-minded, elderly man → 1909 UK middle class usage
► RUNT an ill-tempered or disagreeable old person, typically a woman → a1652 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SNARLER an ill-tempered, grumbling, or fault-finding person → 1634
► SPAN an ill-tempered child → 1893 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► THWART an ill-tempered, cross person → 1852 Eng. dial.
► TUTTLE an ill-tempered, awkward fellow → 19C Eng. dial.
► WARRACH an ill-tempered, stubborn person → 1866 Sc. (Bk.)
► WIDDYFUL an ill-tempered, small person → 1825 Sc.
► XANTHIPPE ► XANTIPPE ► ZANTIPPE ► ZENTIPPE the wife of Socrates; hence, an ill-tempered woman or wife; a shrew; a scold → 1596

PHRASES
► HAVE PISSED ON A NETTLE to be ill-tempered, peevish, and cross → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
► ARG to talk ill-temperedly and hot-headedly; to argue → 1914 Sc. & Amer. dial.
► CARRY HAY IN ONE’S HORNS to be ill-tempered or dangerous → 1648
► CRAB to make ill-tempered or peevish → 1662 obs.
► GET OUT OF BED BACKWARDS to be ill-tempered or irritable → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HARM to be ill-tempered or peevish; to fret, to grumble → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► HAVE A DOG IN ONE’S BELLY to be ill-tempered → 19C Eng. dial.
► NAB THE RUST to be ill-tempered or sullen: to be angry or sulky; to take offense → 1785 sl., orig. used of horses
► RIDE GRUB to be ill-tempered or sullen → 1785 colloq.
► TAKE THE TIG to become ill-tempered → 1773 Sc.