"like a bear with a sore head" meaning in English

See like a bear with a sore head in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Prepositional phrase

Audio: En-au-like a bear with a sore head.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} like a bear with a sore head, {{en-PP}} like a bear with a sore head
  1. (simile) Very irritable; bad-tempered. Synonyms: mad as a bear with a sore head
    Sense id: en-like_a_bear_with_a_sore_head-en-prep_phrase-zgXhFypE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English similes

Download JSON data for like a bear with a sore head meaning in English (1.3kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "like a bear with a sore head",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "like a bear with a sore head",
      "name": "en-PP"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English similes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Very irritable; bad-tempered."
      ],
      "id": "en-like_a_bear_with_a_sore_head-en-prep_phrase-zgXhFypE",
      "links": [
        [
          "irritable",
          "irritable"
        ],
        [
          "bad-tempered",
          "bad-tempered"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile) Very irritable; bad-tempered."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "mad as a bear with a sore head"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-like a bear with a sore head.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/80/En-au-like_a_bear_with_a_sore_head.ogg/En-au-like_a_bear_with_a_sore_head.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/En-au-like_a_bear_with_a_sore_head.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "like a bear with a sore head"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "like a bear with a sore head",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "like a bear with a sore head",
      "name": "en-PP"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English prepositional phrases",
        "English similes",
        "English terms with audio links"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Very irritable; bad-tempered."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "irritable",
          "irritable"
        ],
        [
          "bad-tempered",
          "bad-tempered"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile) Very irritable; bad-tempered."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-like a bear with a sore head.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/80/En-au-like_a_bear_with_a_sore_head.ogg/En-au-like_a_bear_with_a_sore_head.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/En-au-like_a_bear_with_a_sore_head.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "mad as a bear with a sore head"
    }
  ],
  "word": "like a bear with a sore head"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.