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tantrummy

tantrummy adjective: prone to, or characteristic of, tantrums.

Adjective

tantrummy (comparative more tantrummy, superlative most tantrummy)

  1. Prone to, or characteristic of, tantrums.
    • She gave a tantrummy stomp, but again her eyes were disconnected from her words and actions.2011, Hilary Duff, Devoted, Simon & Schuster BFYR, →ISBN, page 12
    • I spiraled down into all the warnings I had ever received about adopted children from family, from misinformed people I barely knew, instead of thinking: at three kids get tantrummy.2014, Susanne Antonetta, Make Me a Mother: A Memoir, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 130

Forms of tantrummy

comparativemore tantrummy
superlativemost tantrummy

Origin of tantrummy

From tantrum + -y.

Questions about tantrummy

What does tantrummy mean?
Tantrummy means prone to, or characteristic of, tantrums.
What part of speech is tantrummy?
Tantrummy is an adjective.

Words near tantrummy in the dictionary

  1. tantrum
  2. tantrumed
  3. tantruming
  4. tantrummed
  5. tantrumming
  6. tantrummy
  7. tantrums
  8. tantrumy
  9. tants
  10. tantulocarid
  11. tantulocarids

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