Common English words usually have an enormous number of synonyms, and the word angry is no exception. For example, checking the ordinary dictionaries and thesauruses will uncover many of the words that mean "angry" -- angered, annoyed, apoplectic, bitter, enraged, furious, incensed, indignant, infuriated, irate, ireful, mad, maddened, outraged, sore, upset, vexed, worked-up, wrathful and wroth. There are also a great many synonyms for angry which are based on the imagery of fire or boiling liquids -- fiery, foaming, fuming, hot, inflamed, roiled (riled) up, seething, simmering, smoldering and steaming. Perhaps, however, the most interesting ways of indicating anger in the English language are the many metaphors, similes and colorful phrases which come from the slang and daily speech of ordinary people -- bent out of shape, throwing a fit, having a cow (remember Bart Simpson!), having a hissy fit (conniption fit), blowing a fuse, blowing a gasket, as hot as Hell, as mad as an old wet hen, swollen up like an old toad-frog, blowing up, blowing one's stack, as hot as a two-dollar pistol, going off on someone, as hot as a firecracker, as mad as Hell and the ever-popular pissed-off. There are, of course, many other synonyms and phrases in English which mean "angry," but those already mentioned above ought to make the point clear: even the most common words in English usually have dozens of equivalents.