Ill-tempered, apt to take offence. This is formed from the old word crous, cross, peevish.
“Azeyn [against] hem was he kene ane crous,
And said, ‘Goth out my Fader hous.ʹ”
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.
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