For a contemporary audience, they were in the first instance a theatrical partnership of two well-suited stage personae: the adult vice/ clown and the boy actor as irascible stooge.
Is that the kind of performance that one would expect from an irascible section of our people?
There is nothing clear but the allegation of an irascible doctor at the other end of the telephone, ringing up somebody late at night.
On the other hand, there is his other level, when he behaves with all the prudence and restraint of an irascible yahoo.
I get very angry when judges are irascible towards young counsel.
That is what makes me irascible.
Some people are more irascible than others.
Her first name is a play on the word irascible, as she is easily irritated and quick to anger.
