That feels, expresses, or is characterized by irritation or annoyance; vexed. Also formerly: †troubled, disturbed, afflicted (obsolete).

Of the temporary mood: Cross, vexed, irate, irritated; out of humour. (In early use only Scottish: now dialect; often pronounced crab'd.)

That has been provoked; having received provocation; irritated, angry, annoyed.

That chafes; in various senses of the verb.

Irritated, angry.

Heated; rubbed, fretted; angered, irritated, vexed.

Stirred up, excited (obsolete); exasperated, provoked, annoyed; stimulated to vital action, etc.: see the verb.

as mad as Ajax Obsolete.

Exasperated, incensed, irritated, provoked. Frequently in predicative use. Now chiefly colloquial.

Furious, excited, irritated. Also figurative.

= irritated, adj.

onor upon the fret (see senses 3 4; perhaps partly transferred from sense 5): in a state of agitation, irritation, ill-humour, or impatience.

as mad as a wet hen

as mad as a meat axe (chiefly Australian and New Zealand).

Australian. With lower-case initial. Bad-tempered, irritable. Also: irritated, annoyed. Cf. Scot, n.1 4.

slang (originally U.S.). Annoyed, irritated; fed up. In later use chiefly as hacked off. Cf. hack, v.1 13.

Annoyed; irritated.

Originally British colloquial. Irritable; annoyed, cross.

colloquial. Annoyed, irritated; depressed. Cf. pip, n.1 3, pippy, adj.2 1. Now chiefly Australian and New Zealand.

Angry; annoyed, irritated; = pissed off at pissed, adj. 3.

Irritated, annoyed. rare.

Annoyed, irritated.

Angry; irritated.

U.S. slang. Angry, irritated; hostile. to jump salty: to undergo a sudden change of mood or outlook; to become annoyed or angry (with someone).

Originally U.S. Angry, irritated; fed up, depressed. Frequently (esp. in British use) as pissed off.

Annoyed, irritated, angry. Cf. pissed, adj. 2.