(superl.) Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.

bad-tempered bearish bitchy cankered cantankerous captious choleric churlish contentious crabbed crabby cranky cross cross-grained crotchety crusty cussed disagreeable edgy excitable feisty fractious fretful grouchy grumpy hot-tempered huffish huffy ill-humored ill-tempered irascible irritable mean on edge ornery peevish perverse petulant pissed off quarrelsome querulous quick-tempered short-tempered snappish spiteful spleeny splenetic tetchy touchy ugly waspish