Crossword clues for crossness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crossness \Cross"ness\, n. The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.
Wiktionary
n. the state of being cross; mild anger
WordNet
n. an irritable petulant feeling [syn: irritability, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance, choler]
a disposition to be ill tempered [syn: crabbiness, crabbedness]
Wikipedia
Crossness is a place in south-east London. It is situated in the London Borough of Bexley, close to the southern bank of the River Thames, to the east of Thamesmead, west of Belvedere and north-west of Erith. The place takes its name from Cross Ness, a specific promontory on the southern bank of the River Thames. In maritime terms, the tip of Cross Ness, in the past referred to as 'Leather Bottle Point', marks the boundary between Barking Reach and Halfway Reach. An unmanned lighthouse stands there as an aid to shipping.
Crossness is the location of a large sewage treatment works and the Victorian Crossness Pumping Station, built at the eastern end of the Southern Outfall Sewer as part of the London sewerage system designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette and constructed between 1859 and 1865. Crossness Nature Reserve is east of the sewage works.
Category:Areas of London Category:Districts of Bexley Category:Districts of London on the River Thames
Usage examples of "crossness".
Why I have known a short tower to Slab City or Loontown act like a charm on my pardner, when crossness wuz in his mean and snappishness wuz present with him.
I had all the purposes, and that gave you all the crossness: things weren't getting along at all.
Celia remembered Augusta's crossness at seeing her brother again after an absence of many months, and her ill-natured observation that his affliction grew worse every year, and a wave of protectiveness surged through her.