Ill-tempered+person
11crab — I [[t]kræb[/t]] n. v. crabbed, crab•bing 1) ivt any decapod crustacean of the suborder Brachyura, having a wide and flattened body, with a small abdomen folded under the thorax 2) ivt any of various crablike arthropods, as the horseshoe crab 3)… …
12Scrooge — /skrudʒ/ (say skroohj) noun 1. Ebenezer, a miserly, ill tempered character in Dickens story A Christmas Carol (1843). 2. (usually lower case) a mean, ill tempered person; miser …
13crank — A term vulgarly applied to a person of eccentric, ill regulated, and unpractical mental habits; an ill tempered person …
14crank — A term vulgarly applied to a person of eccentric, ill regulated, and unpractical mental habits; an ill tempered person …
15cross-patch — Applied to an ill tempered person since the eighteenth century. The word ‘patch’ had earlier been used of an ill natured person, especially a child. This use of ‘patch’ is thought to derive from the nickname of Cardinal Wolsey’s domestic fool… …
16devil — /ˈdɛvəl / (say devuhl) noun 1. (in Jewish, Christian and Islamic theologies) a. (sometimes upper case) the supreme spirit of evil and enemy of God; Satan. b. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humankind both …
17devil — /dev euhl/, n., v., deviled, deviling or (esp. Brit.) devilled, devilling. n. 1. Theol. a. (sometimes cap.) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. b. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily… …
18crank — I [[t]kræŋk[/t]] n. 1) mac any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft 2) inf Informal. an ill tempered person 3) an unbalanced person who is overzealous in the advocacy of a private cause …
19Tartar — Tartarly, adv. /tahr teuhr/, n. 1. a member of any of the various tribes, chiefly Mongolian and Turkish, who, originally under the leadership of Genghis Khan, overran Asia and much of eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. 2. a member of the… …
20Vixen — Vix en, n. [AS. fixen a she fox, for fyxen, fem. of fox. See {Fox}.] 1. A female fox. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] 2. A cross, ill tempered person; formerly used of either sex, now only of a woman. Barrow. [1913 Webster] She was a vixen… …
