a. Also 7 spightish. [f. SPITE sb. + -ISH.] Spiteful, snappish.
1627. W. Sclater, Exp. 2 Thess. (1629), 301. Spightishest insidiations of Satan.
1667. in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ., III. 71. Herevppon that churl became spightish and furious.
1848. Barnes, Poems (ed. 2), Gloss., Spitish, spiteful; snappish.
1891. T. Hardy, in Harper’s Mag., April, 700/2. This answer made Pa’son Billy … rather spitish, not to say hot.
1909. Westm. Gaz., 5 June, 2/2. From it … came spitish puffs of wind.
