angries

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noun

The act or state of being angry; anger, angriness.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

angries1

nounthe angries pl (plural only)
  1. informalpluralplural onlyrareThe act or state of being angry; anger, angriness.

    Whoa. Someone just got a nasty case of the angries and puked on Usenet.

    2002 September 11, Friar Donk, “Suppose you socialist condone this too...”, in hfx.general (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Apr 2026
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    i hear ya ,dear.... i was going thru the angries, also...my (new) dco^([sic]) has got me on ativan...has helped with the outbursts...

    2001 October 3, lightlady, “Sad to say ...but i am Back!”, in alt.med.fibromyalgia (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Apr 2026

    Question : Once the case of the angries is over, does Angry Recipient have to notify SpamCop to _unblock_ e-mail from Carl?

    2001 December 22, James C. Hrubik Sr., “From CoCo to CooCoo”, in bit.listserv.coco (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Apr 2026

    I triple that.. I was so pissed Saturday I went outside and chopped down every last tree on our property.. (boy was my wife mad) But when you have a severe case of the angries, nothing's more soothing & therapeutic than wielding a big friggin' axe and swinging it frenetically for a couple of hours.

    2002 May 13, Carver Lee, “It Ain't Over Till.............”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.dallas-mavs (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Apr 2026

    Then perhaps you might suggest a pillow fight, to get the angries out. In my situation, we ended up having a massive crying fest, to get the sadness out.

    2002 June 8, shinypenny, “Spouse's "honesty" with children”, in alt.support.divorce (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Apr 2026

    His abrasiveness doesn't help. Or... Put it this way, the abrasiveness lets people think he's bullshitting or just looking for a fight all the time, so it's a "boy who cried wolf" setup. Even when they do know that they don't know as much as him, that doesn't mean he couldn't be having an attack of the angries.

    2004 June 22, Mick, “Re: (Revision) Don't Bother (815 words)”, in alt.fiction.original (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Apr 2026

angries2

noun
  1. pluralplural of angry

angries3

verb
  1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of angry

Angries4

nounAngries pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyliteratureThe Angry Young Men.

    The Angries are not in revolt against poverty or exploitation as such...

    1966, Stanley Kauffmann, A world on film: criticism and comment
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    The 'Angries' ridiculed this notion with cliched representations of effeminate artists and intellectuals...

    2007, Christine Berberich, The image of the English gentleman in twentieth-century literature

Origin

angries · noun

From angry (adjective) + -s (plural suffix).

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angries · noun

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angries · verb

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APA

angries. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/angries

MLA

“angries.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/angries. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “angries,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/angries.

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