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Grumpy, ill-humored, annoyed, as in Stay away from Claire; she's cross as a bear this morning . Unlike the earlier cross as two stocks , this survives even though the adjective cross for “ill-tempered” is otherwise not used much in America. It is sometimes amplified as cross as a bear with a sore head . [Early 1700s]

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