ILL-TEMPERED

25B6; adjective BAD-TEMPERED, short-tempered, ill-humoured, moody; in a (bad) mood, cross, irritable, irascible, tetchy, testy, crotchety, touchy, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, peevish, fractious, waspish, prickly, pettish; grumpy, grouchy, crabbed, crabby, splenetic, dyspeptic, choleric; informal snappish, snappy, chippy, on a short fuse; Brit. informal shirty, stroppy, ratty; N. Amer. informal cranky, ornery, peckish; Austral./NZ informal snaky; informal, dated waxy, miffy.