to have pissed on a nettle and variants: to be peevish, bad-tempered, or uneasy. Obsolete.
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释义 | the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > be ill-humoured [verb (intransitive)] (24) to have pissed on a nettle1546 to have pissed on a nettle and variants: to be peevish, bad-tempered, or uneasy. Obsolete. mumpc1610 intransitive. To assume a demure, melancholy, or sanctimonious expression; to be silent and sullen; to sulk, mope. Also transitive with it. to sell souse1611 to sell souse: (see quot. 1611). Obsolete. sullena1652 intransitive. To be sullen; to sulk. Obsolete. sumpha1689 intransitive. To act stupidly; (later also) to loaf about in a dull or stupid manner; to sulk, to be sullen. frump1693 To sulk, be in a bad temper. Obsolete. hatch1694 intransitive. To dwell on something, esp. gloomily or broodingly; (also) to sulk. Now rare (Irish English in later use). Also with over. sunk1724 intransitive. To be in a bad-tempered or sullen mood; to sulk. mug?c1730 intransitive. To pout, grow sullen; to mope. purt1746 intransitive. To pout; to sulk. sulk1781 intransitive. To keep aloof from others in moody silence; to indulge in sullen ill-humour; to be sulky. to get up or out of bed (on) the wrong side1801 wrong side (†wrong-side, wrongside). to get upor out of bed (on) the wrong side, with allusion to the supposed disturbing effect on one's temper… strum1804 (intransitive) ‘to be in a pettish humour’ (Jamieson). boody1857 intransitive. To sulk or be sullen; to mope over something. sull1869 intransitive. Of an animal, to balk; of a person, to become sullen or to sulk. grump1875 intransitive. To sulk. to hump the back1889 transitive. To make humped or hump-shaped; to hunch. (Also with up.) to hump the back (figurative), to show vexation or sulkiness. to have (also pull, throw, etc.) a moody1969 A fit of moodiness or sullenness; a sulk, a bad mood. Esp. in to have (also pull, throw,etc.) a moody. Also in plural, with the. Subcategories:— become ill-humoured (5) — reflect moodily (1) |
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