Although generally of sunny disposition on rare occasions I do become mildly annoyed at something. I "take umbrage".
Umbrage is the exact opposite of sunny. The word derives from the Latin umbraticum meaning "shade" or "shadow". Its current English usage dates to the 1600s with the general sense being "a suspicion that one has been slighted". Other shadowy meanings are also found in the words Penumbra and Umbrella!
It's odd how some concepts recur across many years, many cultures, many languages. The very modern phrase "Casting Shade" is basically a way of saying that you are doing something that the slighted party may well take umbrage at.
Disclaimer, in the above photo and actually at the time of this posting I'm in a very good mood.
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