a Vitious, restive, fiery and troublesome--a horse. Hence 2 Cross, savage, crabbed--a person: also wild, refractory, termagant--child, woman. 3 Applied freely (to children and females) with angry implication of Wilfulness, wickedness, mischievousness, vileness, ugliness, slovenliness, disorderliness &c.
a Vitious, restive, fiery and troublesome--a horse. Hence 2 Cross, savage, crabbed--a person: also wild, refractory, termagant--child, woman. 3 Applied freely (to children and females) with angry implication of Wilfulness, wickedness, mischievousness, vileness, ugliness, slovenliness, disorderliness &c.