tempersome

English

Etymology

From temper +‎ -some.

Adjective

tempersome (comparative more tempersome, superlative most tempersome)

  1. Characterised or marked by a temper; bad-tempered; temperamental; hotheaded; moody
    • 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
      And now that it is so tempersome and cold you are always going out into the nastiness and getting wet or frozen every day.
    • 2016, Gordon Claridge, ‎Ruth Pryor, ‎Gwen Watkins, Sounds from the Bell Jar:
      Virginia did not recover until early September, when she wrote that she was still cross and “tempersome”.

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