单词 | hot-livered |
释义 | hot-liveredadj.ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [adjective] > with good living hot-livered1594 rubicund1605 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. F The burgers and dunstical incorporationers of Wittenberg in their distinguished liueries, their distinguished liuerie faces I mene, for they were mest of them hot liuered dronkards, and had all the coate coulours of sanguin, purple, crimson, copper, carnation that were to be had in their countenaunces. 2. Excitable, irascible; cf. hot-tempered adj. (b) at hot adj. and n.1 Compounds 3. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [adjective] > irascible (of person) hotOE wooda1250 hastivec1300 irous1303 hastya1350 angrya1387 melancholiousa1393 quicka1400 irefulc1400 melancholyc1450 turnec1480 iracundiousa1492 passionatea1500 fumish1523 irascible1530 wrothful1535 fierya1540 warm1547 choleric1556 hot at hand1558 waspish1566 incensive1570 bilious1571 splenative1593 hot-livered1599 short1599 spitfire1600 warm-tempered1605 temperless1614 sulphurous1616 angryable1662 huffy1680 hastish1749 peppery1778 quick-tempered1792 inflammable1800 hair-triggered1806 gingery1807 spunky1809 iracund1821 irascid1823 wrathy1828 frenzy1859 gunpowdery1868 gunpowderous1870 tempersome1875 exacerbescent1889 tempery1905 lightningy1906 temperish1925 short-fused1979 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered ix. 29 Ignorant hotliuered fellowes, of an vnseasoned zeale. 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 6 A capricious Pædantie of hot-liver'd Grammarians. ?1766 D. Garrick Cymon iv. 42 Before I would follow unlawful game to please a hot-liver'd enchantress..I would thrust my pipe thro' my tabor, chuck it into the river, and myself after it. 1827 R. M. Bird Caridorf iv. ii. 120 Must these hot-livered lordlings go so far in their iniquities as to take life? 1981 Amer. Ethnologist 8 477 Angry behavior, whether indulged in by the mad or the sane, is called panas hati (hot-livered), since the liver is considered to be the seat of emotions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1594 |
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