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English
Etymology
From temper tantrum + -y.
Adjective
temper-tantrumy (comparative more temper-tantrumy, superlative most temper-tantrumy)
- (rare) Having or tending to have a temper tantrum.
1976 February 7, Judith Edwards, “‘The Chinese Wall:’ Moving, Unusual Treatment”, in The Burlington Free Press, 148th year, number 38, page 8, column 5:Peter Kurth plays the temper-tantrumy, ineffectual emperor well.
1982, Ruth P. Kane, “The Family’s Role in Primary Prevention”, in Mary Frank, editor, Primary Prevention for Children and Families (Journal of Children in Contemporary Society; volume 14, numbers 2/3), New York, N.Y., London: The Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 31:Her behavior was that of a temper-tantrumy, 2½-year-old child; so was that of her mother.
2020, Jen Sincero, Badass Habits: Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick, John Murray Learning, →ISBN:[…] that embracing who you truly are is about accepting yourself through all of it—when you’re at your most victorious, your most irritable, your most temper-tantrumy, and your most vulnerable.