SHORT-TEMPERED
ADJECTIVES
► CAPPERNISHIOUS short-tempered, fretful and finding fault continually → Bk1898 Sc.
► CLUNCHY quick-tempered; short tempered; easily offended → 19C Eng. dial.
► CRUSTY short-tempered, harshly curt in manner or speech → 1570
► CUTTY testy, hasty, short of temper → 1825 Sc.
► FUFFY short-tempered, touchy, huffy → 1858 Sc.
► HECKLE-TEMPERED short-tempered, hasty, touchy → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► IGNORANT angry, irascible, short-tempered → 1940s W. Indies. & Black British sl.
► NERTY irascible, short-tempered → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► ON THE PECK irritable; angry; ready to fight; short-tempered; easily offended → 1907 Amer. dial.
► OUCHY irritable, short-tempered, touchy, easily offended, sensitive, intolerant → 1966 Amer. dial.
► PAUGHTY irritable, easily provoked, short-tempered → Bk1903 Eng. dial.
► PECKISH short-tempered; easily offended; nagging, hypercritical → 1895 Amer. dial.
► PECKY short-tempered; easily offended; nagging, hypercritical → 1949 Amer. dial.
► QUANT short-tempered, ill-tempered → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► RASPY easily exasperated, irritable, short-tempered → 1877
► SATTERAL short-tempered, tart → Bk1904 Sc.
► SHORT-GRAINED short-tempered, irritable → B1900 Eng. dial.
► SHORT-METTLED short-tempered, irritable, hasty → B1900 Eng. dial.
► SNAPPY short-tempered; irritable → 1834 US sl.
► STREAKY irritable; short-tempered → Bk1904 sl.
► STRUNTY short-tempered, easily offended, sulky, out of humour, pettish, huffy → 1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TECHEOUS ► TECHOUS touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered → 1842 Amer. dial.
► TECHY touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered, peevish, easily offended, sensitive → 1815 Amer. dial.
► TEECHY tetchy, peevish, irritable, short-tempered; easily offended or angered → 1691 Eng. dial.
► TEMPERY short-tempered, hasty → B1900 Eng. dial.
► TESTIF aggressive, contentious, short-tempered, peevish, tetchy → 1526 obs.
► TETCHEROUS touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered → 1976 Amer. dial.
► TETCHIFIED touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered → 1944 Amer. dial.
► TETCHIOUS touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered → 1913 Amer. dial.
► TETCHOUS touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered → 1842 Amer. dial.
► TETCHOUS AS A SKINNED EEL touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered → 1842 Amer. dial.
► TETCHSOME touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered → 1966 Amer. dial.
► TETCHY touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered, peevish, easily offended → 1592
► TITCHY tetchy, peevish, irritable, short-tempered; easily offended or angered → 1691 Eng. dial.
► TUTTLE excitable, short-tempered → B1900 Eng. dial.
► TWITTY touchy, irritable, short-tempered; censorious, carping → 1825 orig. Eng. dial.
NOUNS – PERSON
► CRUST a short-tempered or curt person; a crusty person → 1594 obs.
► NAT a person of short stature, esp. one of short temper → 1873 Sc. & N. Ireland
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