Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Angry.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective colloq. Very angry.

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  • adjective US Feeling wrath; very angry, furious.

Etymologies

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From wrath +‎ -y.

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Examples

  • The answer made to the lady who was "wrathy" about the pigtail was,

    Diary in America, Series Two Frederick Marryat 1820

  • When I talked it over with him in a fatherly way he got wrathy, and I had to take him out on the bank and give him a threshing.

    CHAPTER 28 2010

  • When he told my wrathy captors who I was, they were much mortified of course, and made the most profuse apologies, promising that no such mistake should occur again, and so on; but not feeling wholly reassured, for my uniform was still liable to mislead, I was careful to return to headquarters in company with my deliverer.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • So I shall stay my hand of doom and not destroy the internets with my wrathy lightning-filled boredom elemental attack.

    Dogme/Dogma yuki_onna 2008

  • Dan was bellowing like a bull, for he was very wrathy; and Billy Fish had a hard job to prevent him running out at the crowd.

    For more Althouse, see Instapundit. Ann Althouse 2008

  • The noise of the mooncalves would at times be a vast flat calf-like sound, at times it rose to an amazed and wrathy bellowing, and again it would become a clogged bestial sound, as though these unseen creatures had sought to eat and bellow at the same time.

    First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

  • Just now he was decidedly nervous, wrathy, and perplexed, for he had been brought here against his will.

    The Titan 2004

  • Quick as a flash Amory reached up and turned on the light, and when the door opened and three boys, the wrathy and dance-craving Froggy among them, rushed in, he was turning over the magazines on the table, while she sat without moving, serene and unembarrassed, and even greeted them with a welcoming smile.

    This Side of Paradise 2003

  • "Oh, what heaven!" and was about to sink into the hammock when she stopped and turned round to say to Constantijn: "I don't know why you bother with me you think of such nice things and I was absolutely absolutely wrathy."

    Tulips For Augusta Neels, Betty 1971

  • And ring they did, sending peal after peal echoing through the silent building until the sleepy proprietor, dishevelled and wrathy, stumbled through the doorway, and demanded fiercely, "What the deuce is wanted?"

    Tabitha's Vacation Ruth Alberta Brown

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