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wrathy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈɹɒθi/ (UK)

Etymology

From wrath + -y; first attested in 1828. Compare Middle English wrothy.

Meanings

1. (US) Feeling wrath; very angry, furious.
   • There is a sin that is my favorite. It's one I indulge in several times a day. I kinda like — I really kinda like — wrath. And I am feeling wrathy today. 2012, PZ Myers, Reason Rally speech, 24 Mar 2012
   • When I got there, the old lady appeared to be mighty wrathy; and when I broached the subject, she looked at me as savage as a meat axe. 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 64:
   • Sometimes the wrathy owner of the missing horses undertook to recover them himself. 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 307:

Forms

Deriveds

wrathily · wrathiness