uffish

== English == === Etymology === Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll. From its sound; Carroll explained the word as "a state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish." === Pronunciation === enPR: ŭf'ĭsh, IPA(key): /ˈʌfɪʃ/ === Adjective === uffish (comparative more uffish, superlative most uffish) (nonce word) grumpy, ill-tempered 1872, Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky (poem in Through the Looking-Glass) And, as in uffish thought he stood, / The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, / And burbled as it came!