IRACUNDULOUS ADJ. inclined to anger, easily angered, irritable; irascible - 1765 ETYMOLOGY from Latin īrācundus (angry, enraged, furious) with diminutive formative -ulus, as in albulus, lentulus, etc. FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1765 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...LOVE is certainly, at least alphabetically speaking, one of the most A gitating B ewitching C onfounded D evilish affairs of life ---- the most E xtravagant F utilitous G alligaskinish H andy-dandyish I racundulous (there is no K to it) and L yrical of all human passions : at the same time, the most M isgiving N innyhammering O bstipating P ragmatical S tridulous R idiculous ---- though by the bye the R should have gone first -- But in short 'tis of such a nature, as my father once told my uncle Toby upon the close of a long dissertation upon the subject ---- ``You can scarce,'' said he, ``combine ``two ideas together upon it, brother ``Toby, without an hypallage...." From: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne
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