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Mr. Tom Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary

Use of cross meaning angry

Hi

Could you please tell me if the word cross is used in AmE meaning angry?

Please don't be cross with me.

Thanks,

Tom

PS: Is my question written in natural English?

Could you please tell me if the word cross is used in AmE meaning angry?

  

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In US English "cross" is almost never used in the sense of "angry."

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Yes, it is used in the US to mean angry. Your sentence would sound more natural if you had written

"Could you please tell me if the word cross is used in AmE to mean angry?"

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If any American uses "cross" for "angry", he speaks a dialect I am unaware of. We understand it when we hear it, but it always sounds like something Mary Poppins would say.

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I am American, and it sounds very English to me. I'd be surprised to hear it from another American.

It seems to me something that American characters might say in fiction of 100 years ago or so. I have a vague feeling that it might occur in some southern dialects, but I've never lived in the South so I could be completely wrong on that.

At any rate, I don't use it and no American I

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