Bad tempered, gruff, and easily annoyed. Lewis Carroll used it in Jabberwocky to describe a mood of angry impatience.
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AboutUffish is an English adjective from Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky, describing a bad-tempered, gruff, and easily annoyed mood. This definition poster gives a name to angry impatience while leaving room to notice, understand, and move beyond it.
What does Uffish mean?It describes someone or something that is gruff, irritable, bad-tempered, or impatient.
Where does the word Uffish come from?The word appears in Lewis Carroll’s poem Jabberwocky and is pronounced approximately “UFF-ish.”
What does an Uffish poster symbolize?It can represent the recognition of difficult moods, including tension, irritation, and conflict.
