hot-livered

hot-livered (comparative more hot-livered, superlative most hot-livered)

1. (archaic) Of an irritable temperament; irascible; easily angered.
   • 1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 6:

     [Y]ou cite them to appeare for certaine Paragogicall contempts, before a capricious Pædantie of hot-liver’d Grammarians.

• “hot-livered”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.