Angry.
1834. This kinder corner’d me, and made me a little wrathy.—C. A. Davis, ‘Letters of Jack Downing, Major,’ p. 90.
1837. It used to make us wrathy to find thar war so little fight in him, that he wouldn’t so much as kill a murdering Injun.—R. M. Bird, ‘Nick of the Woods,’ i. 88–9 (Lond.).
1842. “What do you mean?” he cried, looking wrathy.—Phila. Spirit of the Times, Feb. 9.
1842. Mr. Colquitt of Georgia said that the member from N. Carolina (Mr. Rayner) was exceedingly wrathy.—House of Repr., March 29: Cong. Globe, p. 368.
1842. Oh! you’re wrathy, a’n’t ye? Why, I didn’t mean nothing but what was civil!—Mrs. Kirkland, ‘Forest Life,’ i. 126.
1845. See Appendix XV.
1847. It wasn’t any use for them to get wrathy—the bears didn’t give them time to get in a passion.—‘The Great Kalamazoo Hunt,’ p. 49 (Phila.).
a. 1853. David with his lyre put wrathy Saul’s disordered soul in tune.—Dow, Jun., ‘Patent Sermons,’ iii. 56.
1856. The rich folks ruther turned up their noses at him, or he consated they did, and it made him awful wrathy.—Whitcher, ‘The Widow Bedott Papers,’ No. 25.
1856. He was mighty wrothy, an’ I was a’most afeerd at one time he’d hitch up and drive off, but he got cooled off ’fore long.—Knick. Mag., xlviii. 433 (Oct.).
1857. On Sunday morning, if breakfast is delayed, he is apt to be wrathy.—T. B. Gunn, ‘New York Boarding-houses,’ p. 34. (Italics in the original.)
1859. The ruling of the Court made one man a very wrathy individual.—Knick. Mag., liii. 538 (May).
1867. Very wrathy, Joe put a double charge into his old musket, and thought he would ‘clean’ out the whole tribe at one shot. Somehow he only killed one, and the balance scampered off across the field.—F. B. Carpenter, ‘Six Months at the White House,’ p. 139 (N.Y.).
1888. Some grew hot and wrathy if laughed at, and that increased our fun.—Mrs. Custer, ‘Tenting on the Plains,’ p. 420.
