farouche

"Always farouche, dear Miss Warrender, but I apologize," he continued as he gave her his arm.

She has been very farouche with me for a long time; and is only just beginning to thaw a little from her Zenobia ways.

Sa figure est decompose, tous les muscles de son visage sont en contraction, tout son ensemble est farouche et colere.

She did not observe that the farouche officer in the corner of the coach was shaking with suppressed laughter.

I called her "La jeune fille farouche" (looked this up first before doing so), and she was always called this afterwards.