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Dec. 13th, 2017

carnaptious (kar-NAP-shuhs, ka-NAP-shuhs) - (Scot.) adj., bad-tempered, quarrelsome.

A bit old-fashioned, even in Scotland. From car-/ker-, intensifying prefix (from Old English, where it denoted sorrow) + knap, bite/break off + adjectival ending.

---L.