splenetic

splenetic
    adj 1: of or relating to the spleen [syn: {splenic},
           {splenetic}, {lienal}]
    2: very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House
       and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and
       waspish about his colleagues" [syn: {bristly}, {prickly},
       {splenetic}, {waspish}]
    

Splenetic \Splen"e*tic\, a. [L. spleneticus: cf. F.
   spl['e]n['e]tique. See {Spleen}.]
   Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful.
   "Splenetic guffaw." --G. Eliot.
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         You humor me when I am sick;
         Why not when I am splenetic?             --Pope.
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   Syn: Morese; gloomy; sullen; peevish; fretful.
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Splenetic \Splen"e*tic\, n.
   A person affected with spleen.
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85 Moby Thesaurus words for "splenetic":
      acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous,
      acrimonious, adrenal, bearish, bitchy, bitter, blase, burning,
      cankered, cantankerous, caustic, choleric, churlish, crabbed,
      cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, cussed, disagreeable,
      dispirited, eccrine, embittered, endocrine, excitable, exocrine,
      fed-up, feisty, fractious, glandular, glandulous, gonadal,
      good and tired, holocrine, huffish, huffy, humoral, irascible,
      irked, irritable, jaded, life-weary, luteal, mean, melancholic,
      melancholy, merocrine, ornery, ovarian, pancreatic, perverse,
      prostatic, rancorous, rankled, resentful, resenting, satiated,
      sick, sick of, snappish, sore, spiteful, spleeny, stewing, testy,
      thymic, thyroidal, tired, tired of, tired of living,
      tired to death, ugly, virulent, waspish, wearied, weariful, weary,
      weary unto death, world-weary