spleenfuladj.
/ˈspliːnfʊl/ Full of spleen; passionate, irritable, peevishly angry:
a. Of persons (or animals).
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > irritable [adjective]
sharpc1000
impatient1377
out-sharpinga1382
teethya1500
fumish1523
testy1526
crabbed1535
tettish1567
peevish1577
kickish1589
splenetic1593
spleenful1594
tetchy1596
wasp-stung1598
touchy1602
spleeny1604
pruriginous1609
teety1621
splenitive1633
peltish1648
irritable1662
splenatic1663
splenetive1678
unheer1691
rusty1694
nettlesome1766
stingy1781
snarly1798
tutty1809
spleenical1818
rileya1824
nettly1825
edgy1837
porcupinal1846
shirty1846
raspish1854
peckish1857
streaky1860
owly1864
teasy1866
fussy1869
raspy1869
spiky1881
chippyc1885
tetchous1890
narky1895
snarky1906
ringy1907
snarkish1912
Scot1916
crooked1945
niggly1952
snooty1959
kvetchy1965
to be on the rag1967
sandpaper1976
gribble1984
splenous-
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 191 Now will I..let my spleenfull sonnes this Trull defloure. View more context for this quotation
1631 T. Heywood England's Elizabeth (1641) 90 Thus she remained a sorrowful and dejected prisoner, in the hands of spleenfull and potent adversaries.
1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 139 The spleenful Pigeons never could create A Prince more proper to revenge their hate.
1795 ‘P. Pindar’ Pindariana 217 'Twas thus I spleenful cry'd.
1818 J. Keats Endymion iv. 172 About the wilds they hunt with spear and horn, On spleenful unicorn.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 16 Then rode Geraint, a little spleenful yet, Across the bridge.
b. Of actions, feelings, etc.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. ii. 128 My selfe haue calm'd their spleenfull mutinie. View more context for this quotation
c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vii. 3070 These, these they be, on which I doe engage My vexèd Muse to wreck her spleenfull rage.
a1641 T. Heywood & W. Rowley Fortune by Land & Sea (1655) i. i You speak out of some spleenful rashness, And no deliberate malice.
1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xv. 111 Smiles on her Lips a spleenful Joy express'd.
1827 T. Hood Plea Midsummer Fairies lxxii, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 37 With more spleenful speeches and some tears.
1893 Temple Bar Jan. 61 The spleenful emphasis with which the Squire puffed out the last word.
Derivatives
ˈspleenfully adv. in a spleenful manner.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > [adverb]
impatiently1490
tetchily1647
touchily1658
testily1755
spleenishly1775
splenetically1779
edgily1837
irritably1855
shirtily1879
teethily1879
spleenfully1882
soreheadedly1883
teasily1928
rattily1938
snarkily1967
1882 in Imperial Dict.
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