Reverse Dictionary: QUICK-TEMPERED

ADJECTIVES
► AMBITIOUS of persons or animals: spirited, vivacious, unruly; vicious; angry; enraged; quick-tempered; hot-tempered → 1853 Amer. dial.
► BRASH easily angered; quick-tempered, sharp-tempered → 1903 Amer. dial.
► CAMPY quick-tempered, ill-tempered → 1808 Sc.
► CLUNCHY quick-tempered; short tempered; easily offended → 19C Eng. dial.
► EASY ON THE TRIGGER ► EASY ON TRIGGER quick-tempered, excitable, quick to anger → 1912 Amer. dial.
► EDGY quick-tempered, easily provoked → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► FLASHY touchy, irascible, quick-tempered, angry → 1941 Amer. dial.
► HASTIF  ► HASTIVE quick-tempered, passionate; in a passion, angry → 1297 obs.
► HASTISH quickly excited to anger; quick-tempered, passionate, irritable → 1749 Eng. dial.
► HATTLE-TEMPERED quick-tempered, touchy → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► METTLY quick-tempered, irritable → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SHORT-FUSED having a quick temper → 1979
► SHORT-MINDED quick-tempered, touchy → 1986 Amer. dial.
► SHORT-PATIENCED quick-tempered; excitable; touchy; irritable; easily offended; impatient → 1922 Amer. dial.
► SHORT-PATIENT quick-tempered; excitable; touchy; irritable; easily offended; impatient → 1922 Amer. dial.
► SPICY quick-tempered → 1914 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SPLENITIVE splenetic; irritable, morose, peevish, ill-humoured, quick-tempered, testy → 1633 obs.
► VITTERY quick-tempered, spiteful → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON
► BAD MAN a quick-tempered man, not necessarily a term of reproach → 1914 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► BIRKIE a sharp-tongued, quick-tempered person, usually a woman; sometimes used facetiously to a lively child → 1929 Sc. 
► BLUE HEN’S CHICK a dominant, aggressive, or quick-tempered person, usually a woman → 1951 Amer. dial.
► BLUE HEN’S CHICKEN a dominant, aggressive, or quick-tempered person, usually a woman → c1960 Amer. dial.
► FERNY-FIRE a quick-tempered person → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PEPPERPOT a quick-tempered or hot-tempered person → 1894