fractious
adjective
[ ˈfrakʃəs ]
• (typically of children) irritable and quarrelsome.
• "they fight and squabble like fractious children"
Similar:
grumpy,
grouchy,
crotchety,
in a (bad) mood,
cantankerous,
bad-tempered,
ill-tempered,
ill-natured,
ill-humoured,
peevish,
cross,
disagreeable,
pettish,
irritable,
irascible,
tetchy,
testy,
curmudgeonly,
crabbed,
crabby,
waspish,
prickly,
peppery,
touchy,
scratchy,
crusty,
splenetic,
shrewish,
short-tempered,
hot-tempered,
quick-tempered,
dyspeptic,
choleric,
bilious,
liverish,
cross-grained,
as cross as two sticks,
snappish,
snappy,
chippy,
on a short fuse,
short-fused,
shirty,
stroppy,
narky,
ratty,
eggy,
like a bear with a sore head,
cranky,
ornery,
peckish,
soreheaded,
snaky,
waxy,
miffy,
Origin:
late 17th century: from fraction, probably on the pattern of the pair faction, factious .
