tempersomeadj.
/ˈtɛmpəsəm/ Originally dialect.
Quick-tempered. Also pseudo-archaic. [after temper n. 6] , displaying extreme conditions of weather.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [adjective] > irascible (of person)
hotOE
wooda1250
hastivec1300
irous1303
hastya1350
angrya1387
melancholiousa1393
quicka1400
irefulc1400
melancholyc1450
turnec1480
iracundiousa1492
passionatea1500
fumish1523
irascible1530
wrothful1535
fierya1540
warm1547
choleric1556
hot at hand1558
waspish1566
incensive1570
bilious1571
splenative1593
hot-livered1599
short1599
spitfire1600
warm-tempered1605
temperless1614
sulphurous1616
angryable1662
huffy1680
hastish1749
peppery1778
quick-tempered1792
inflammable1800
hair-triggered1806
gingery1807
spunky1809
iracund1821
irascid1823
wrathy1828
frenzy1859
gunpowdery1868
gunpowderous1870
tempersome1875
exacerbescent1889
tempery1905
lightningy1906
temperish1925
short-fused1979
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective] > extreme
tempersome1946
1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. 119 Tempersome, hasty-tempered.
1882 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Tempersome, hot-tempered; passionate.
1906 W. De Morgan Joseph Vance xliii. 392 He was very tempersome about it.
1927 M. Sadleir Trollope 256 All were tempersome; but he was large and rough and incoherent.
1946 M. Peake Titus Groan 234 And now that it is so tempersome and cold you are always going out into the nastiness and getting wet or frozen.
Derivatives
ˈtempersomeness n.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [noun]
hastinessc1325
melancholya1375
hastivenessa1393
hastivessa1393
rese?a1400
hastivitya1500
fumishness1519
choler1530
firishness1568
cholericness1571
waspishness1593
fieriness1625
irascibility1750
parlousness1755
temper1828
provocability1834
quickness1863
tempersomeness1909
1909 W. De Morgan It never can happen Again I. xxv. 370 Marianne, for all her tempersomeness and jealousy, loved and reverenced Challis.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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