Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fractiously"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fractious \Frac"tious\, a. [Cf. Prov. E. frack forward, eager,
E. freak, fridge; or Prov. E. fratch to squabble, quarrel.]
Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross;
snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious
horse.
Syn: Snappish; peevish; waspish; cross; irritable; perverse;
pettish. -- {Frac"tious*ly}, v. -- {Frac"tious*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fractiously
adv 1: in a peevish manner [syn: {peevishly}, {querulously}]
2: in a fractious manner; "the horse was behaving fractiously
and refused to jump"
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