hot-livered
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hot-livered (comparative more hot-livered, superlative most hot-livered)
- (archaic) Of an irritable temperament; irascible; easily angered.
- 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:
- you cite them to appear for certain paragogical contempts , before a capacious pedanty of hot-livered grammarians
References
[edit]- “hot-livered”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.