Spleeny

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spleeny \Spleen"y\, a.
     1. Irritable; peevish; fretful.
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              Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to
              Our cause.                            --Shak.


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     2. Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "spleeny":
     bearish, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, cranky,
     cross, cross-grained, crusty, cussed, disagreeable, excitable,
     feisty, fractious, huffish, huffy, irascible, irritable, mean,
     ornery, perverse, snappish, spiteful, splenetic, testy, ugly,
     waspish