uffish

Etymology
From its sound; Carroll explained the word as "a state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish."

Adjective

 * 1)  grumpy, ill-tempered
 * 2) * 1872, Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky (poem in Through the Looking-Glass)
 * And, as in uffish thought he stood, / The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, / And burbled as it came!