wrathy

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Very angry. A colloquial word.--Webster.


Oh! you're wrathy, ain't ye? Why, I didn't mean nothin' but what was civil!--Mrs. Clavers's Forest Life, Vol. I. p. 103.

The General was as wrathy as thunder; and when he gets his dander up, it's no joke.--Maj. Downing's Letters, p. 34.

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