tempersome

comparative more tempersome · superlative most tempersome

1. Characterised or marked by a temper; bad-tempered; temperamental; hotheaded; moody.

   Virginia did not recover until early September, when she wrote that she was still cross and “tempersome”.

   2016, Gordon Claridge, Ruth Pryor, Gwen Watkins, Sounds from the Bell Jar

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   And now that it is so tempersome and cold you are always going out into the nastiness and getting wet or frozen every day.

   1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC