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quick-tempered

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quick-tem⋅pered

[kwik-tem-perd]
–adjective
easily angered.

Origin:
1820–30


quarrelsome, testy, churlish, irascible.
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quick-tem·pered   (kwĭk'těm'pərd)
adj.  Easily aroused to anger.
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