cross-patch

cross-patch
   Applied to an ill-tempered person since the eighteenth century. The word ‘patch’ had earlier been used of an ill-natured person, especially a child. This use of ‘patch’ is thought to derive from the nickname of Cardinal Wolsey’s domestic fool or jester, not the word for a piece of cloth. The Oxford English Dictionary mentions that ‘cross-patch’ is normally applied to a girl or woman, though Sir Walter Scott used it of a man. It is addressed to a man by a woman speaker when it occurs vocatively in Like Any Other Man, by Patrick Boyle.

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