Fractious

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.

Synonyms: Snappish; peevish; waspish; cross; irritable; perverse; pettish. Frac"tious*ly, v. Frac"tious*ness, n.