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hot-livered

hot-livered adjective: of an irritable temperament; irascible; easily angered.

Adjective

hot-livered (comparative more hot-livered, superlative most hot-livered)

  1. (archaic) Of an irritable temperament; irascible; easily angered.
    • [Y]ou cite them to appeare for certaine Paragogicall contempts, before a capricious Pædantie of hot-liver’d Grammarians.1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 6

Forms of hot-livered

comparativemore hot-livered
superlativemost hot-livered

Questions about hot-livered

What does hot-livered mean?
Hot-livered means of an irritable temperament; irascible; easily angered.
What part of speech is hot-livered?
Hot-livered is an adjective.

Words near hot-livered in the dictionary

  1. hot-knifing
  2. hot-list
  3. hot-listed
  4. hot-listing
  5. hot-lists
  6. hot-livered
  7. hot-making
  8. hot-milk cake
  9. hot-milk cakes
  10. hot-mix
  11. hot-mixes

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