Word to the Wise: Irascible

By Early To Rise | Wed, Feb 20, 2008 |

  

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Someone who’s "irascible" (ih-RAS-uh-bul) is hot-tempered. The word is from the Latin for "prone to anger."

Example (as used by Jack Olsen in Hastened to the Grave): "The lawyer described his client as an irascible eighty-two-year-old eccentric who alternated between spinning fascinating tales about her past and cussing him out."

 

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