ill-tempered, is the Anglo-Saxon crous.
“Azeyn [against] hem was he kene and crous.”
Cursor Mundi.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.