truculent

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TRU'CULENT, adjective Fierce; savage; barbarous; as the truculent inhabitants of Scythia. 1. Of a ferocious aspect. 2. Cruel; destructive; as a truculent plague.
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