English

Adjective

iracund ‎(comparative more iracund, superlative most iracund)

1. (rare) Angry; irritable; passionate; irascible; choleric.
   • 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great, 1870, page 80,

     Dryasdust knows only that these Preussen were a strong-boned, iracund herdsman-and-fisher people; highly averse to be interfered with, in their religion especially.

   • 1863, Robert Montgomery Bird, W. H. Ainsworth (editor), Nick of the Woods: A Story of Kentucky, Volume 1, page 93,

     And the 'steal Injun hoss!' iterated and reiterated by a dozen voices, and always with the most iracund emphasis, enabled Roland to form a proper conception of the sense in which his enemies held that offence, as well as of the great merits and wide-spread fame of his new ally, whose voice gad thrown the red-men into such a ferment.

   • 2011, Vivien Kelly, Two Red Shoes, unnumbered page,

     She thought the man in the ticket booth looked charmingly rotund and friendly (in reality he was a lazy, iracund man), the light rain flowed down drainpipes and dripped off the roof like the water of a baptism, where all, and not just the baby, were blessed by God.

Translations

References

• iracund in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• iracund in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• candiru, candirú