angry English · revision 4003

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 1360|origins=non angr}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈæŋ.ɡri/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|angry]], formed [[af|en|anger|-y]].^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024)^(SOED 2002) The Old Norse adjective was ongrfullr “sorrowful”, and Middle English had angerful “anxious, eager” (mid-13th century).^(Etymonline) It is related to [[anger]] and [[anguish]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Of things, troublesome, vexatious: about 1360 in the OED^(OED 1989) and 1375, in Barbour's Bruce, in Barnhart, where the sense is “vexing, fierce, inflamed”.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ “Troubled, vexed” is from 1375, a sense now obsolete.^(OED 1989) Of persons, “incensed, resentful, wrathful”, it is from the late 14th century,^(Etymonline) about 1385 in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989) Of a wound or sore, “inflamed”, and of anything “looking as if in anger”, it is from 1393.^(OED 1989) ''Angry young man'' dates to 1941 but was popularized from John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger (1956), though the phrase does not occur in it.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) The riddle asking for a third English word in -gry besides angry and hungry has no answer, and Richard Lederer traces it to a New York television quiz show of 1975.^(Etymonline) In Scots angry meant “inflamed”.^(Wright 1898)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1360 – troublesome.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1375 – troubled, vexed.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * c. 1385 – feeling anger.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1393 – inflamed, as a sore.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1941 – ''angry young man''.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1956 – popularized by Osborne's play.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Feeling or showing [[anger]]; [[irate]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # Showing or resulting from anger: ''angry words''.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # Threatening in appearance: ''an angry sky''.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # Painfully inflamed: ''an angry rash''.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[angrily]]

+ * [[angriness]]

+ * [[unangry]]

+ * [[Angry Young Man]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[anger]]

+ * [[anguish]]

+ * [[anxious]]

+ * [[hungry]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The American Heritage sets angry beside furious, indignant, irate, ireful, mad and wrathful, which share the meaning “feeling or showing anger”.^(AHD)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}