fretful, fidgety; on the fret.
     hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy[obs3],
tetchy; like touchwood, like tinder; huffy; pettish, petulant; waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, “sudden and quick in quarrel” [As You Like It].
     querulous, captious, moodish[obs3]; quarrelsome, contentious,
disputatious; pugnacious &c. (bellicose) 720; cantankerous, exceptious[obs3]; restiff &c. (perverse) 901a[obs3]; churlish &c. (discourteous) 895.
     cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a
dog, cross as the tongs; fractious, peevish, acaritre[obs3]. in a bad temper; sulky &c. 901a; angry &c. 900. resentful, resentive[obs3]; vindictive &c. 919. 
     Int. pish! 
     Phr. a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes[Fr]; quamvis tegatur proditur
vultu furor [Lat][Seneca]; vino tortus et ira [Lat][Horace].

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     #901a.  Sullenness. —­ N. sullenness &c. adj.; morosity[obs3], spleen;
churlishness &c. (discourtesy) 895; irascibility &c. 901.
     moodiness &c. adj.; perversity; obstinacy &c. 606; torvity|,
spinosity[obs3]; crabbedness &c. adj.
     ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor; sulks, dudgeon,
mumps[obs3], dumps, doldrums, fit of the sulks, bouderie[Fr], black looks, scowl; grouch; huff &c. (resentment) 900. 
     V. be sullen &c. adj.; sulk; frown, scowl, lower, glower, gloam[obs3],
pout, have a hangdog look, glout[obs3]. 
     Adj. sullen, sulky; ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill-
disposed; grouty [obs3][U.  S.]; in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor; out of temper, out of humor; knaggy[obs3], torvous[obs3], crusty, crabbed; sour, sour as a crab; surly &c. (discourteous) 895.
     moody; spleenish[obs3], spleenly[obs3]; splenetic, cankered.
     cross, crossgrained[obs3]; perverse, wayward, humorsome[obs3];
restiff[obs3], restive; cantankerous, intractable, exceptious[obs3], sinistrous[obs3], deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward; cussed [U.  S.].
     dogged &c. (stubborn) 606.
     grumpy, glum, grim, grum[obs3], morose, frumpish; in the sulks &c. n.;
out of sorts; scowling, glowering, growling; grouchy. peevish &c. (irascible) 901.

     #902. [Expression of affection or love.] Endearment. —­ N. endearment,
caress; blandishment, blandiment|; panchement, fondling, billing and cooing, dalliance, necking, petting, sporting, sparking, hanky-panky; caressing.
     embrace, salute, kiss, buss, smack, osculation, deosculation|; amorous
glances.
     courtship, wooing, suit, addresses, the soft impeachment; lovemaking;
serenading; caterwauling.
     flirting &c. v.; flirtation, gallantry; coquetry.
     true lover’s knot, plighted love; love tale, love token, love letter;
billet-doux, valentine.
     honeymoon; Strephon