a. [f. TINDER sb. + -Y.] Of the nature of or resembling tinder, tinder-like; also fig. easily inflamed, ‘inflammable,’ passionate.
1754. Richardson, Grandison (1781), IV. xviii. 146. What woman would have herself supposed capable of such a tindery fit?
1795. Mme. D’Arblay, Lett., 15 June. I love nobody for nothing; I am not so tindery! Ibid. (1814), Wanderer, I. 100. You were in such a tindery fit as to be kindled by that dowdy.
1886. Miss Braddon, One Thing Needful, v. Sheets of tindery paper.
