spleeny
// September 2nd, 2006 // Cool Words
Sarah Graves talks about this word in her books (the Home Repair is Homicide series). It is a New England term that means “peevish and irritable with hypochondriac inclinations,” according to Merriam-Webster Online. What a great one!
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