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dyspeptic [dis-pep-tik ]

adjective:
1 Having dyspepsia (indigestion) or a consequent air of bad temper

2 gloomy, pessimistic, and irritable

noun:
a person subject to or suffering from dyspepsia

Examples:

I was not dyspeptic; I had fasted and would have eaten if they had given me milk, as I requested. (Mary Huestis Pengilly, Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum)

In every midterm with a dyspeptic electorate, their anger has been aimed in one direction. (Jeff Greenfield, The Coming Midterm Collapse)

We're to have two kinds of jelly, red and yellow, and whipped cream and lemon pie, and cherry pie, and three kinds of cookies, and fruit cake, and Marilla's famous yellow plum preserves that she keeps especially for ministers, and pound cake and layer cake, and biscuits as aforesaid; and new bread and old both, in case the minister is dyspeptic and can't eat new. (L M Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables)

We are some ways a dyspeptic, nervous set: anything which will repair such losses may be regarded as a blessing to the race. (Walt Whitman, 'Sports for a Dyspeptic Race', from Intimate With Walt: Whitmans Conversataions With Horace Traubel)

By her side, on the little reading-desk, was a survival from the ages of litter - one book. This was the Book of the Machine. In it were instructions against every possible contingency. If she was hot or cold or dyspeptic or at a loss for a word, she went to the book, and it told her which button to press. (E M Forster, 'The Machine Stops')

Origin:

1690s, 'causing dyspepsia' (a sense now obsolete); by 1789 as 'pertaining to dyspepsia;' by 1822 as 'suffering from dyspepsia;' from Greek dyspeptos 'hard to digest,' from dys- 'bad, difficult' + peptos 'digested,' from peptein 'to digest' (from PIE root pekw- 'to cook, ripen'). Also 'characteristic of one suffering from dyspepsia' (depressed, pessimistic, misanthropic), by 1894; dyspepsical in this sense is by 1825. (Online Etymology Dictionary)

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breviloquent [bre-vil-uh-kwuhnt ]
adjective:

1 (of a person, speech, or style of writing) using very few words; concise.

2 marked by brevity of speech

Examples:

This article provides a breviloquent biography of Fanon's life to afford insight to the development of his theories, and furnishes a review of his relevant literature. (Frantz Fanon and Colonialism: A Psychology of Oppression, Semantic Scholar)

A breviloquent tragedy of the American Dream from the perspective of a sensitive middle-aged office janitor, the tale displays the preternatural empathy that was to distinguish all of West's work to come. (Emma Garman, Feminize Your Canon: Dorothy West, the Pris Review)

Origin:

Mid 19th century Latin breviloquent-, from brevis 'short' + loquens 'speaking'. (Oxford English Dictionaries)

(Somehow, it is totally fitting that this post is by necessity rather... breviloquent itself :)

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accoutrements [uh-koo-truh-muh nt], also US alternative accouterment
noun:

1a Equipment, trappings, specifically a soldier's outfit usually not including clothes and weapons
1b accessory items of clothing or equipment

2 identifying and often superficial characteristics or devices

3 archaic : the act of accoutring (providing with equipment or furnishings)

More commonly used plural of accoutrement

Examples:

In the late 1960s his mother’s dog, Cimi, was fed cheap dog food and table scraps, and had just two accoutrements: a blanket and a leash. (Pet-ownership is booming across the world, The Economist)

Examining these heirloom fabrics has become a yearly ritual for my mother and me, a moment alone spent marveling over the handiwork, and ensuring that each garment is stored with its matching accoutrements: a choli (blouse) and petticoat. (Leah Bhabha, Something Borrowed: How I Turned a 100-Year-Old Sari Into My Wedding Veil, Vogue)

We have been turned out, for some purpose, and are standing in line with our guns and accoutrements on. (Lawrence Van Alstyne, Diary of An Enlisted Man)

Just before dark they had been close enough for us to plainly distinguish that they were green Martians, and all during the long night we distinctly heard the clanking of their accoutrements behind us. (Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Gods of Mars)

Origin:

Mid 16th century from French, from accoutrer 'clothe, equip' (Oxford English Dictionaries)

Accoutrement and its relative 'accoutre,' a verb meaning 'to provide with equipment or furnishings' or 'to outfit,' have been appearing in English texts since the 16th century. Today both words have variant spellings - 'accouterment' and 'accouter.' Their French ancestor, accoutrer, descends from an Old French word meaning 'seam' and ultimately traces to the Latin word consuere, meaning 'to sew together.' You probably won’t be too surprised to learn that 'consuere' is also an ancestor of couture, meaning 'the business of designing fashionable custom-made women's clothing.' (Merriam-Webster)