Irascibility
384. Irascibility (See also Anger, Exasperation, Shrewishness.)
- Caius, Dr. irritable physician. [Br. Lit.: Merry Wives of Windsor ]
- Donald Duck cantankerousness itself. [Comics: Horn, 216–217]
- Elisha sics bears on boys for their jibing. [O.T.: II Kings 2:23–24]
- Findlay, Maude out-spoken, oft-married, liberated woman. [TV: “Maude” in Terrace, II, 79–80]
- Granny cantankerous matriarch of the Clampett family. [TV: “The Beverly Hillbillies” in Terrace, I, 93–94]
- Hotspur Sir Henry Percy, so named for his fiery character. [Br. Lit.: I Henry IV ]
- Houlihan, Hot Lips resident termagant of M ° A ° S ° H 4077. [TV: “M ° A ° S ° H” in Terrace, II, 70–71]
- Nipper, Susan sharp-tongued nurse of Florence Dombey. [Br. Lit.: Dombey and Son ]
- Tybalt irascible foil to peacemaking Benvolio. [Br. Lit.: Romeo and Juliet ]
- yellow bile humor effecting temperament of irritability. [Medieval Physiology: Hall, 130]
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