crosspatch
- n a bad-tempered person
- For more than a decade cinemaudiences have known short-tempered, pince-nezed Actor Robert McWade as the crabbiest, crustiest crosspatch that ever foreclosed a mortgage or sicked .
- Gallup pollsters asked a moderately crosspatch-section of American wives: "What are the chief faults husbands have?""Drinking with the boys" topped the.
- The ruffled spouse, normally a quiet and gentle bird, is the mate of the red-eyed crosspatch and is usually unruffled.