splenetick
splenetick is the obsolete form of splenetic.
Meaning of splenetic
Adjective
splenetic (comparative more splenetic, superlative most splenetic)
- Bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry.
- A sect, whose chief devotion lies / In odd perverse antipathies; / […] / More peevish, cross, and splenetick, / Than dog distract, or monkey sick.1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished...
- Synonyms:
- agitated, angry, annoyed, apoplectic, bad-tempered, berserk, big mad, blood-boiling, boiling mad, butthurt
- Related to the spleen.
- I have already described the general protuberance of the abdomen among the children throughout the Messaria and the Carpas districts, all of whom are more or less affected by splenetic diseases.1879, Sir Samuel White Baker, Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879
Forms of splenetick
| comparative | more splenetick |
|---|---|
| superlative | most splenetick |
Questions about splenetick
- What is splenetick the obsolete form of?
- Splenetick is the obsolete form of splenetic.
Words near splenetick in the dictionary
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