spleeny

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The man who thinks he is dying may be spleeny, but the man who says he is spleeny is, of the two, the one more likely to be dying See here, old man," I began, "don't you get to thinking that when you hide your own head in the sand no one can see the colour of your feathers.

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  1. Full of or characterized by spleen. Angry; peevish; fretful; ill-tempered; irritable; flery; impetuous. The heart and harbour'd thoughts of ill make traitors, Not spleeny speeches. Fletcher, Valentinian, ii. 3.
  2. Melancholy, or subject to fits of melancholy; affected with nervous complaints.

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