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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Latin
Origin: truculentus, from trux 'fierce'

truculent

 adjective
     
truc‧u‧lent literary
bad-tempered and always willing to argue with people:
a truculent attitude
—truculently adverb
—truculence noun [uncountable]
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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