rheumatic splenetic, humoursome, peevish:
“as rheumatic as two dry toasts”
2 HENRY IV., ii. 4. 55
(
“which cannot meet but they grate one another,”
JOHNSON)
;
“then he was rheumatic,”
HENRY V., ii. 3. 38
(where Malone suggests that the Hostess may mean “then
he was lunatic”.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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