tempersome

English

Etymology

From temper +‎ -some.

Adjective

tempersome (comparative more tempersome, superlative most tempersome)

1. Characterised or marked by a temper; bad-tempered; temperamental; hotheaded; moody
   • 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:

     And now that it is so tempersome and cold you are always going out into the nastiness and getting wet or frozen every day.

   • 2016, Gordon Claridge, Ruth Pryor, Gwen Watkins, Sounds from the Bell Jar:

     Virginia did not recover until early September, when she wrote that she was still cross and “tempersome”.

Anagrams

• emmetropes