iracund

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Etymology

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From Latin iracundus.

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iracund (comparative more iracund, superlative most iracund)

  1. (rare) Angry; irritable
    Synonyms: irascible, choleric
    • 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great, published 1870, page 80:
      Dryasdust knows only that these Preussen were a strong-boned, iracund herdsman-and-fisher people; highly averse to be interfered with, in their religion especially.
    • 1863, Robert Montgomery Bird, edited by W. H. Ainsworth, Nick of the Woods: A Story of Kentucky, volume 1, page 93:
      And the 'steal Injun hoss!' iterated and reiterated by a dozen voices, and always with the most iracund emphasis, enabled Roland to form a proper conception of the sense in which his enemies held that offence, as well as of the great merits and wide-spread fame of his new ally, whose voice gad thrown the red-men into such a ferment.
    • 2011, Vivien Kelly, Two Red Shoes, unnumbered page:
      She thought the man in the ticket booth looked charmingly rotund and friendly (in reality he was a lazy, iracund man), the light rain flowed down drainpipes and dripped off the roof like the water of a baptism, where all, and not just the baby, were blessed by God.

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