LekhoriLekhoriGiven to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby.
"She is a cantankerous old maid," added another, whom I recognised, by his voice, as a man whose attentions I had put a determined check to not six weeks before: "she is a cantankerous old maid, fretting and snarling over the loss of her beauty."
Perhaps derived from earlier contenkerous, from contentious + rancorous.
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