Sentence:  As the rain poured down; and Frieda went on and on about the children; and Lawrence got <WSD>humpier</WSD> and <WSD>humpier</WSD> but kept asking ‘a dozen times a day in all keys, are you miserable' (i. 534); it must have been the Christmas misery all over again. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Sulky; irritable.