Mental pain, distress, or irritation; irritability, touchiness.

Irritation, anger.

= couroux, n.

The condition of being exasperated or intensely irritated; exasperated feeling, violent passion or anger; †an instance of this.

The action of exacerbating or provoking to anger or hatred; the condition of being exacerbated; embitterment, irritation; an instance of the same.

figurative. Embittered condition; exasperation.

A state of impatience, irritation, anxiety, or the like, such as induces sweat; a flurry, hurry, fume. Chiefly Scottish and U.S.