Irascible in english
Irascible
pronunciation: ɪræsɪbəl part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: ɪræsɪbəl part of speech: adjective
In gestures
irascible = tetchy ; peevish ; irascible ; crabby ; short-tempered ; off-hand [offhand] ; ornery ; waspish ; explosive ; testy ; quick-tempered ; ill-tempered ; liverish ; snappy ; ratty ; waspy ; narky .
Example: CC uses this device in Literature, where authors are specified by their date of birth (though Ranganathan has a rather tetchy note about the difficulty of establishing this in some cases).Example: In 1912 a group of women library students were accused of lacking a sense of proportion, being peevish and being absorbed in small details.Example: He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.Example: The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.Example: A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.Example: The osteopath was accused of being off-hand with a female patient and not putting her at ease.Example: My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.Example: But as you read this sentence, you cannot fail to hear his voice, cosy, waspish, inimitable.Example: The explosive Cameron Shepherd then brought the Wallabies to within a point of France with the team's second try five minutes later.Example: We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.Example: Lawson was a quick-tempered young woman but she also had a good heart and liked to dance when the mood struck her.Example: Ill-tempered girls were also twice as likely as even-tempered girls to be divorced women at midlife (26% vs. 12%).Example: Some people, being excessively liverish, cannot refrain from fuming with rage and shouting abuse when they come across stories of injustice, ignorance and foul play in the newspapers.Example: Often snappy and sarcastic, she's only serious when it comes to fulfilling her agreements.Example: As soon as we entered the restaurant we were greeted by a ratty lady that was rude and discourteous and the meals were a disgrace to say the least.Example: Aunt Jane said he was a quiet child, but he did become waspy about things from time to time.Example: My husband would be a very angry man; the slightest thing irritates him and makes him narky.more:
» ser irascible con = be short with ; be snappy with .
Example: He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload. Example: She was overweight, tired, exhibited some symptoms of depression, complained of boredom at work and was snappy with her two children and husband.