splenetic, adj.
very irritable
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
bristly prickly splenetic waspish
sample sentences
"bristly exchanges between the White House and the press""he became prickly and spiteful"
"witty and waspish about his colleagues"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
similar to
of or relating to the spleen
<adj.pert>
lienal splenetic splenic