прил. quarrelsome, quibbling, nagging, faultfinding, contentious, contradictious, carping, captious, cantankerous, troublesome, grumpy, grumpish; peevish, mordant, currish, doggish, waspish, trenchant; (за забележка) caustic; ~ съм be quarrelsome etc., have a worm in o.’s tongue; ~а жена shrew, scold, virago, sl. battle-axe.