释义 |
tempery, a. dial.|ˈtɛmpərɪ| [f. temper n. + -y1.] Short-tempered.
1905Eng. Dial. Dict. VI. 60/1 Yorks... ‘She was a tempery body.’ 1951H. Giles Harbin's Ridge xiii. 116 She had tempery ways..and sometimes I felt like I was in a pot of water with it boiling. 1954Landfall VIII. 266, I cursed on like a tempery child deprived Of what he'd loved. |