ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

ill humor &c (sullenness) 901.1; asperity &c; churlishness &c (discourtesy) 895.
huff &c (resentment) 900; a word and a blow.
Sir Fretful Plagiary; brabbler † , Tartar; shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold,
Xantippe; porcupine; spitfire; fire eater &c (blusterer) 887; fury &c (violent person) 173.
V. be irascible &c adj.; have a temper &c n., have a devil in one; fire up &c (be angry)
900.
Adj. irascible; bad-tempered, ill-tempered; irritable, susceptible; excitable &c 825; thinskinned
&c (sensitive) 822; fretful, fidgety; on the fret.
hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy † , tetchy; like touchwood, like
tinder; huffy, pettish, petulant; waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric,
shrewish, sudden and quick in quarrel [As You Like It].
querulous, captious, moodish † ; quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious; pugnacious &c
(bellicose) 720; cantankerous, exceptious † ; restiff &c (perverse) 901.1 [Obs.]; churlish
&c (discourteous) 895.
cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the
tongs; fractious, peevish, acari=atre † .
in a bad temper; sulky &c 901.1; angry &c 900.
resentful, resentive † ; vindictive &c 919.
Int. pish!,
Phr. a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes [Fr.]; quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor
[Lat.] [Seneca]; vino tortus et ira [Lat.] [Horace].
901a. Sullenness -- N. sullenness &c adj.; morosity † , spleen; churlishness &c
(discourtesy) 895; irascibility &c 901.
moodiness &c adj.; perversity; obstinacy &c 606; torvity † , spinosity † ; crabbedness &c
adj.. ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor; sulks, dudgeon, mumps † , dumps,
doldrums, fit of the sulks, bouderie [Fr.], black looks, scowl; grouch; huff &c
(resentment) 900.
V. be sullen &c adj.; sulk; frown, scowl, lower, glower, gloam † , pout, have a hangdog
look, glout † .
Adj. sullen, sulky; ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill-disposed; grouty [U.S.]; in
an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a
shocking humor; out of temper, out of humor; knaggy † , torvous † , crusty, crabbed; sour,
sour as a crab; surly &c (discourteous) 895.
moody; spleenish † , spleenly † ; splenetic, cankered.
cross, crossgrained † ; perverse, wayward, humorsome † ; restiff † , restive; cantankerous,
intractable, exceptious † , sinistrous † , deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward;
cussed [U.S.].
dogged &c (stubborn) 606.
grumpy, glum, grim, grum † , morose, frumpish; in the sulks &c n.; out of sorts;
scowling, glowering, growling; grouchy.
peevish &c (irascible) 901.
902. [Expression of affection or love.] Endearment -- N. endearment, caress;
blandishment, blandiment † ; panchement, fondling, billing and cooing, dalliance, necking,
petting, sporting, sparking, hanky-panky; caressing.