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(adj) cranky, scratchy, irritable, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, nettlesome, techy, testy, tetchy
easily irritated or annoyed
an incorrigibly fractious young man; not the least nettlesome of his countrymen
(adj) recalcitrant, refractory
stubbornly resistant to authority or control
a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness; a refractory child