Forms: 4 angre, (angerich), 4–5 angri, 4–7 angery, 5 angrye, (hangry), 6 anggre, 6–7 angrie, 4– angry. [f. ANGER sb. + -Y1: cf. hungry. With senses 2 and 3 cf. Fr. fâché de and fâché contre. Comp. -er, -est.]
† 1. Full of trouble actively; troublesome, vexatious, annoying, trying, sharp. Obs.
c. 1360. Gloss., in Rel. Ant., I. 8. Molestus, angri.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, V. 70. Myne auenture heir tak will I, Quhethir it be eisfull or angry.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 2628. To liggen thus is an angry thyng.
a. 1667. Jer. Taylor, Serm., III. 267. God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the frowardness of a young spirit.
† 2. Passively affected by trouble; vexed, troubled, grieved. Obs.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, III. 530. The hart is sorowfull or angry.
c. 1394. P. Pl. Crede, 553. Angerich I wandrede the Austyns to prove. [Skeat conjectures angerlich.]
1485. Caxton, Paris & V., 42. Parys was moche angry bycause he sawe wel that it was moche peryllous.
3. Of persons: Actively affected against the agent or cause of trouble; feeling or showing resentment; enraged, wrathful, irate.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Pers. T., 510. Thanne wole he be angry [v.r. angery, hangry] and answeren hokerly.
1440. Partonope, 2556. I am wroth and in my hert angry.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., Angrye, Iracundus, bilosus.
1547. J. Heywood, Prov. & Epigr. (1867), 52. He that will be angry without cause, Must be at one without amendes.
1647. Cowley, Dialogue, ix. in Mistr. I’m angry, but my wrath will prove, More Innocent than did thy Love.
1718. Lady M. Montague, Lett., I. xxi. 69. Very angry that I will not lie like other travellers.
1750. Johnson, Rambl., No. 74, ¶ 4. Angry without daring to confess his resentment.
1864. Burton, Scot. Abr., I. iv. 191. Angry letters to his angrier mistress.
b. Const. (of, for, upon, obs.) at, about, the occasion; at a person when the subjective feeling is denoted, with a person when the anger is manifested; but the tendency is to use with for both.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, XVIII. 7703. There-at Ector was angry, & out of his wit.
a. 1450. Knt. de la Tour (1868), 25. He was angri of her governaunce.
1483. Caxton, G. de la Tour, E viij. God was therefore angry upon them.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froissart, I. ccxxxii. 317. Ye prince … was in a maner angry of the honour yt sir Bertram of Clesquy had gotten him.
1556. Chron. Grey Friars (1852), 88. Some were very anggre wyth hym because he sayd soo.
1579. Tomson, Calvin’s Serm. Tim., 115/2. Must they needes be angrie for it?
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., IV. i. 217. I should be angry with you. Ibid. (1607), Timon, III. iii. 13. I’me angry at him.
1611. Bible, Ps. vii. 11. God is angrie with the wicked euery-day. Ibid., Eccles. v. 6. Wherefore should God be angrie at thy voyce?
1740. Chesterf., Lett., 61, I. 173. I shall be very angry at you.
1778. Burke, Corr. (1844), II. 242. The people are angry with the ministry.
1875. Fam. Her., 21 Aug., 263/2. Major Porter is so awfully angry about it.
1883. Stofford, in Harper’s Mag., June, 130/1. I felt a little angrier with myself for coming than I had felt before.
4. Of mood or action: Moved or excited by anger.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., xxxiv. xxix. The spirite of pacience Doth overcome the angry violence.
1670. Cotton, Espernon, III. IX. 443. The angry trade of War.
1855. Tennyson, Maud, I. VI. vii. A man’s own angry pride Is cap and bells for a fool.
1859. Geo. Eliot, A. Bede, 106. Even in his angriest moods.
5. Bearing the physical marks of anger, looking or acting as if in anger; as an angry countenance, an angry sky, angry billows.
1393. Gower, Conf., I. 283. So bere I forth an angry snoute.
1595. Shaks., John, IV. iii. 149. Now … Doth dogged warre bristle his angry crest.
1611. Bible, Prov. xxv. 23. An angrie countenance.
1687. Dryden, Hind & P., III. 270. He sheathes his paws, uncurls his angry mane.
1756. Burke, Subl. & B., Wks. I. 197. The angry tones of wild beasts.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. § 25. 185. Angry masses of cloud.
1878. R. Stevenson, Inland Voy. The water, yellow and turbulent, swung with an angry eddy … and made an angry clatter along stony shores.
6. Having the color of an angry face, red. rare.
1632. G. Herbert, Vertue, in Temple, 80. Sweet rose, whose hue angrie and brave.
1823. Lamb, Elia, Ser. I. xviii. (1865), 139. His waistcoat red and angry.
7. Habitually under the influence of anger; hot-tempered, irritable, choleric, passionate. arch.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (1865), I. 427. As men in þis londe Beeþ angry. Ibid. (1398), Barth. De P. R., XVIII. i. (1495), 736. Some beestes … be ryght wrathfull and angry.
1535. Coverdale, Prov. xxi. 19. A chydinge and an angrie woman.
1650. trans. Bacon’s Life & Death, 10. The Turkey-Cock … An Angry Bird, And hath exceeding white flesh.
1703. Rowe, Ulysses, IV. i. 1695. Honour, This busie, angry thing, that scatters Discord.
8. Inflamed, smarting, as a sore.
1579. Gosson, Sch. Abuse (Arb.), 21. Curst sores with often touching waxe angry.
1611. Florio, Pedignoni, angrie kibes, chilblanes, or bloodie falles.
1676. Wiseman, Chirurg. Treat., I. iii. 14 (J.). This serum being accompanied by the thinner parts of the Bloud grows red and angry.
1863. Atkinson, Yorksh. Gloss., Angry, applied to a sore (1) that looks very red and inflamed, (2) or that is very irritable and painful.
Mod. The gouty toe is very angry.
9. Sharp, acrid in taste. Sharp, keen, as appetite. rare.
c. 1325. E. E. Allit. P., B. 1035. Alum & alka[t]ran that angré arn boþe.
1859. Tennyson, Enid, 1082. I never ate with angrier appetite.
10. Comb., as angry-eyed, -faced, -looking.
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., 34. That angry eyed, buttoned-up, inflammatory-faced old gentleman.
1880. Mrs. Craik, Thirty Years, 385.
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