text: # cantankerous
  
  ## Anglais
  
  ### Étymologie
  
  Peut-être dérivé de contentious + rancorous.
  
  ### Adjectif
  
  cantankerous \kæn.ˈtæŋ.kə.ɹəs\
  
  * Acariâtre, irascible, revêche.
     * He is a violent, dangerous, cantankerous character, hated by everyone who comes across him, and the butt of the students, so far as they dare take a liberty with him. Perhaps it would be best for you if you never heard from the fellow at all. — (Conan Doyle, The Lost World, 1912)
  
  **Synonymes**
  
  * irascible
  