when you mess with the bull, you get the horns
aggressiveness
hulk out
provocable
assault
cruel
distasteful
pick a fight
rancid
comb someone's hair the wrong way
provocate
offensivity
start in on
get at
hot
set someone's teeth on edge
push someone's buttons
belabour
pick
shit-stir
pop one's cork
provoke
wild out
shit a brick
lace into
goad
rouse
chip on one's shoulder
backstab
intrusiveness
officiousness
belabor
rage
meddlesomeness
jump on
see red
hot-tempered
inflammatory
fuck-off
fighting words
overprovoke
compelling
blow one's top
aggressively
work
lash out
lose it
hostile
surly
lam into
drive someone up the wall
froggish
cue
infuriable
ugly
hardcore
overaggressiveness
hotblooded
get bent out of shape
set up someone's birse
bug
temper
give someone ass cancer
neg
irritable
urge
aggress
plague
do one's block
expletive
raise someone's hackles
brushback pitch
switch
in-your-face
curse word
pitched battle
oath
hit the roof
curse
swearing
get someone's back up
cuss
self-assertion
swearword
detonate
rub up the wrong way
explosive
get someone's goat
break someone's balls
fit to kill
intolerable
red-hot
scare
plagued
strike out
bare one's teeth
spitfire
aggressivity
cyberaggression