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Definition of Spleeny
1. a. Irritable; peevish; fretful.
Definition of Spleeny
1. Adjective. full of spleen; melancholy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spleeny
1. peevish [adj SPLEENIER, SPLEENIEST] - See also: peevish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spleeny
Literary usage of Spleeny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Personality of Emerson by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1903)
"THE PERSONALITY OF spleeny. He thinks he shall die, that he cannot earn half his
wages, must go to his sister,—and it is all very dreadful. ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"... her for A spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Hen. ... You were
too boisterous, spleeny. Malcontent, v, ä, O. PI., iv, 93. ..."
3. Science of the New Thought by Erastus Whitford Hopkins (1904)
"For instance, let a spleeny person who is always on the alert for dirt, ...
I have known such a spleeny person by his persistent scrutiny of food of the ..."
4. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"The Whistle, и spleeny. spleeny English, hanging, drowning. spleen e'en worse
than Bums' venom . Ep. fr. Esopus. A bard who detested all sadness and spleen, ..."
5. Shropshire Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., Used by Georgina Frederica Jackson (1879)
"yet I know her for A spleeny Lutheran ; and not wholesome to Our cause '—K.
Henry VIII., III. ii. 99. ..."
6. Air, Food, and Exercises: An Essay on the Predisposing Causes of Disease by Andrea Carlo Francisco Rabagliati (1904)
"... and from bilious persons bilious are generated, and from phthisical persons
phthisical, and from spleeny persons spleeny" (those who suffer from ..."
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