flaming_tyger (flaming_tyger) wrote in 1word1day,
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irascible-adjective [i-ras-uh-buhl]
1. easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
2. characterized or produced by anger: an irascible response.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irascible

My irascible neighbor would come out and yell at the kids waiting at the bus stop in front of her house if they even came close to standing on her lawn.
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