cross-tempered
11cross-grained — adjective 1》 (also cross grain) (of timber) having a grain that runs across the regular grain. 2》 stubbornly contrary or bad tempered …
12cross-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… …
13cross patch — n. grouch, bad tempered person …
14cross — I. n. 1. Gibbet (made of pieces of wood placed transversely). 2. [With The prefixed.] Gospel, Christian doctrine, Christian religion, Christianity, Christendom. 3. Trial, vexation, trouble, affliction, misfortune. 4. Intermixture (of species). II …
15cross — (as two sticks) Bad tempered …
16cross-patch — Bad tempered person …
17crabbed crabby cross fussy fussbudgety grouchy grumpy bad-tempered ill-tempered — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …
18choleric irascible hotheaded hot-headed hot-tempered quick-tempered short-tempered — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …
19shirty snorty ill-tempered or annoyed — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …
20The Well-Tempered Clavier — Title page of Das Wohltemperierte Clavier[1] The Well Tempered Clavier (German: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier),[2] BWV 846–893, is a collection of solo keyboard music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. He …
