bellicose
adjective
[ ˈbɛlɪkəʊs ]
• demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight.
• "a mood of bellicose jingoism"
Similar:
belligerent,
aggressive,
hostile,
threatening,
antagonistic,
pugnacious,
truculent,
confrontational,
argumentative,
quarrelsome,
disputatious,
contentious,
militant,
combative,
quick-tempered,
hot-tempered,
ill-tempered,
bad-tempered,
irascible,
captious,
spoiling for a fight,
stroppy,
bolshie,
scrappy,
oppugnant,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin bellicosus, from bellicus ‘warlike’, from bellum ‘war’.
