tempersome
adjUK /ˈtɛmpəsəm/ · US /ˈtɛmpɚsəm/
Etymology From temper + -some.
1
Characterised or marked by a temper; bad-tempered; temperamental; hotheaded; moody.
- And now that it is so tempersome and cold you are always going out into the nastiness and getting wet or frozen every day.1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
- Virginia did not recover until early September, when she wrote that she was still cross and “tempersome”.2016, Gordon Claridge, Ruth Pryor, Gwen Watkins, Sounds from the Bell Jar: