a. colloq. rare. [f. CROSS a. 5 b + -ISH.] Rather cross or peevish.

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1741.  Richardson, Pamela (1824), I. xxxii. 55. Jane … sometimes used to be a little crossish.

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1849.  Lytton, Caxtons, 120. I found my mother indisputably crossish.

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