a. [f. SPLEEN sb.] Spleenful; splenetic.
1604. Marston & Webster, Malcontent, V. ii. You were to boisterous, spleeny.
1607. Markham, Cavel., VIII. Ded. A ij b. That I with a more spleeny spirit do condemne you, then all other trades whatsoeuer.
1689. G. Harvey, Curing Dis. by Expect., iv. 18. A Man or Woman afflicted with any hypochondriac spleeny Distemper.
1793. Burns, Impromptu on Mrs. Riddel’s Birth-day, 8. My dismal months no joys are crowning, But spleeny English, hanging, drowning.
1867. in J. Brown, Life Sc. Probationer (1877), 260. Don’t argue that I am envious, or spleeny, or much filled with animosity towards the Kirk.
