"tantrumy" meaning in English

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          "text": "She was always particularly “tantrumy,” as Max called it, after them, appearing low-spirited and unhappy.",
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          "ref": "1892 November 27, Mary P. Abbott, “Difficult to Handle. Few Novelists Write Sequels That Are Successful.”, in The Chicago Sunday Tribune, volume LI, number 332, Chicago, Ill., section “Rhoda Broughton’s Last Novel”, page 39, column 2:",
          "text": "The heroine is always rude and “tantrumy,” and the misunderstandings between the principal characters are nearly always the result of bad temper, if not actual brutality, on the part of the girl[…].",
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          "ref": "1971, Charity Blackstock [pseudonym; Ursula Torday], The Encounter, New York, N.Y.: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., →LCCN, page 107:",
          "text": "“I don’t like tantrumy children,” said the Comtesse, and looked at Alex as if given half a chance, she would smack her too. “He’s only tantrumy because he’s unhappy.[…]”",
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          "text": "Did she hold eye contact because she deals with tantrumy children and agitated parents that way every day?",
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          "word": "temper-tantrumy"
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