QUERULOUS, QUERULOUSNESS
ADJECTIVES
► BEERIN querulous, discontented → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► CABBLING querulous, troublesome → 1866 Sc.
► CANKERED cross, querulous; ill-tempered, spiteful, bitter → 1703 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GNATTERY ill-tempered, cross, peevish; petulant, fault-finding, grumbling, querulous → 1870 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► KNAGGY cross, snappish, querulous; irritable; sarcastic → 1840 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MUMPING grimacing or assuming a demure, sanctimonious, or melancholy expression; querulous, complaining → 1594 chiefly Sc.
► MURMUROUS querulous, complaining, grumbling → a1525
► NAGGY cross, snappish, querulous; shrewish; irritable; ill-natured, bad-tempered, testy; sarcastic → 1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PULY whining, querulous → L17
► QUARRELLOUS given to complaining; querulous → c1400 obs.
► QUERELOUS querulous, complaining in a petulant or whining manner → 1581 obs.
► QUERKETY given to peevish complaining; grumbling, querulous → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUERKING given to peevish complaining; grumbling, querulous → 1746 Eng. dial.
► QUERKY given to peevish complaining; grumbling, querulous → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUERULENTAL querulous, complaining in a petulant or whining manner → 1785 obs.
► QUERULENTIAL querulous; fault-finding; complaining, prone to making complaints → 1786 obs.
► QUIRKING given to peevish complaining; grumbling, querulous → 1746 Eng. dial.
► VINNED ► VINNIED peevish, querulous, bad-tempered; affected → 1834 Eng. dial.
► WAILISH given to wailing, querulous → c1550 obs.
► WHINY-PINY complaining, fretful, peevish, querulous → 1854 Eng. dial.
► YATTERIN captious, fretful, querulous, scolding → a1838 Sc.
► YATTERY captious, fretful, querulous, scolding → a1838 Sc.
► YAUPING ill-natured, peevish, querulous → 1825 Sc.
NOUNS
► CHANNER strife, querulousness; complaining → 1891 Sc.
► YAUP ► YAWP a harsh, hoarse, or querulous cry, esp. of a bird → 1824
NOUNS – PERSON
► GRANNY GRUNT a fussy or querulous person → 1968 Amer. dial.
► MOME a carping critic; a querulous fault-finding person → 1563 obs.
► MOMUS a person who habitually grumbles or finds fault; a querulous person; a carping critic → a1586
► PAEWAE a peevish weakling; a querulous, affected person, esp. a woman → 1927 Sc.
► WORRIT a worrying, over-anxious person; a querulous person; one who teases or pesters; a fidget → 1848 Eng. dial.
VERBS
► CHARK to complain continuously; to be querulous → 1825 Sc. (Bk.)
► CREAK to speak in a strident or querulous tone → c1440 obs.
► GABBLE to scold in an ill-natured way; to wrangle, to be querulous → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► NAAM to be querulous → 1919 Sc.
► NATTER to grumble; to fret; to scold; to speak in a querulous or peevish manner → 1829 Eng. dial.
► PULE to cry in a thin or weak voice; to whine, to whimper; to cry querulously; esp. of an infant → 1525 now Sc. & literary
► YABBER to speak in a peevish, scolding way; to nark; to be querulous → 1825 Sc.
► YABBLE to speak in a peevish, scolding way; to nark; to be querulous → 1825 Sc.
► YAP ► YAUP ► YAWP to speak in a chattering, nagging, or querulous way; to harp on → 1824 Sc.
► YATTER to speak in a constant peevish, querulous manner; to nag, to chide, to carp, to scold, to fret, to grumble; to harp on about something → 1811 Sc.
► YERM ► YIRM ► YURM to whine, to complain; to utter low cries; to ask questions in a querulous tone → 1832 Sc.