| cranky | (adj) easily irritated or annoyed, Syn. peckish, scratchy, tetchy, fractious, pettish, techy, nettlesome, petulant, peevish, testy, irritable, Example: an incorrigibly fractious young man; not the least nettlesome of his countrymen |
| temper | (n) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger, Syn. irritability, peevishness, pettishness, biliousness, snappishness, surliness, Example: his temper was well known to all his employees |
| testily | (adv) in a petulant manner, Syn. petulantly, pettishly, irritably, Example: he said testily; `Go away!' |
