hot-livered

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English

Adjective

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

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

References

“hot-livered”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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