spleeny
51perverse — a. 1. Distorted (from the right), bad, perverted. 2. Obstinate, stubborn, wilful, dogged, mulish, untrastable, unyielding, headstrong, pertinacious, wayward, ungovernable, froward, pervicacious. 3. Cross, petulant, peevish, waspish, captious,… …
52sulky — a. Cross, morose, sour, sullen, spleeny, spleenish, splenetic, perverse, wayward, surly, moody, dogged, churlish, mumpish, cross grained, ill tempered, ill humored, in the sulks, out of humor, out of temper, out of tune …
53cross — I. n. 1. Gibbet (made of pieces of wood placed transversely). 2. [With The prefixed.] Gospel, Christian doctrine, Christian religion, Christianity, Christendom. 3. Trial, vexation, trouble, affliction, misfortune. 4. Intermixture (of species). II …
54liverish — adj 1. jaundiced, yellow, yellowed, yellowish, yellow faced, yellow tinged, yellow skinned; sallow, sickly, pale, wan. 2. bilious, atrabilious, spleeny, spleenful; bitter, sour, soured, Inf. sour as a crab apple; disagreeable, crabbed, crabby,… …
55spleen — /splin / (say spleen) noun 1. a highly vascular, gland like but ductless organ, situated in humans near the cardiac end of the stomach, in which the blood undergoes certain corpuscular changes; lien. 2. Obsolete this organ as supposed (variously) …
56spleenful — [splēn′fəl] adj. full of spleen; irritable, peevish, spiteful, etc.: also spleenish or spleeny spleenfully adv …
57spleen — n. 1 an abdominal organ involved in maintaining the proper condition of blood in most vertebrates. 2 lowness of spirits; moroseness, ill temper, spite (from the earlier belief that the spleen was the seat of such feelings) (a fit of spleen;… …
