Synonyms for short fuse
| Grammar : Noun |
Top 10 synonyms for short fuse Other synonyms for the word short fuse
- furor
- fury
- grouchiness
- heat
- hotheadedness
- huffiness
- ill-humor
- impatience
- irascibility
- irascibleness
- ire
- irritability
- irritation
- low boiling point
- miff
- outburst
- passion
- peevishness
- petulance
- pugnacity
- rage
- resentment
- sensitivity
- slow burn
- snit
- sourness
- spleen
- stew
- sullenness
- surliness
- tantrum
- tartness
- tear
- temperament
- tetchiness
- tiff
- tizzy
- touchiness
- wax
Définition of short fuse
- noun temper
- Grief touched the short fuse to his cigarette and threw the stick.
- Extract from : « A Son Of The Sun » by Jack London
- Besides the alarm, theres a little surprise on a short fuse.
- Extract from : « The Knights of Arthur » by Frederik Pohl
- I used only a third of a stick—you know, short fuse, with the end split so as to hold the head of a safety match.
- Extract from : « The Red One » by Jack London
- Don't treat business as though it were a lighted fire-cracker with a short fuse.
- Extract from : « St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 » by Various
- The next moment Dan had held the end of the short fuse he had provided to the candle, and a slight spluttering began.
- Extract from : « The Black Tor » by George Manville Fenn
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