Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hot-tempered
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As can be imagined, they were very easily degenerated into hot-tempered battles fought in deadly earnest.
▪ Even his friends concede that Pillsbury can be difficult, being something of a diva, hot-tempered and imperious.
▪ Hospital staff sent him home to try to patch things up with his hot-tempered wife.
▪ Neil Foster faces a hefty fine from Essex today following his hot-tempered, stump-kicking antics during the current round of championship matches.
▪ Oh, no, not with that aggravating, hot-tempered, sensuous little leprechaun.
▪ Southgate's and Bowyer's were fiery, hot-tempered, rearing and kicking the air with sharpened hooves.
▪ Spencer was kind, courteous, sometimes hot-tempered, cleverer than most people thought and very funny.
Wiktionary
hot-tempered
a. (context colloquial usually said of a person, but sometimes of an animal English) Become very vocal or even violent when angered or frustrated.
WordNet
hot-tempered
adj. quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn: choleric, irascible, hotheaded, quick-tempered, short, short-tempered]
Usage examples of "hot-tempered".
A mere disagreement between two gentlemen, generous, hot-tempered chaps, followed by mutual apologies.
There's a fang-sized gap where one of her front teeth is missing from a blow as neighborhood rumor has it, of her hot-tempered husband's.
I’ve never been so abused in my life, and hot-tempered Natoma was ready to slug him.