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grouchy
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Grouchy (or de Grouchy) is a French surname. Jean de Grouchy (1354 - 1435), knight at the time of the Hundred Years' War Johannes de Grocheio (Johannes de Grocheio) (c. 1255 – c. 1320), a French musical theorist Sophie de Condorcet (Sophie de Condorcet) ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
grouchy \grouch"y\ (grouch"[y^]), adj. given to complaining or grumbling; prone to show annoyance at slight provocation; irritable. Syn: crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, fussbudgety, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain. (From 1895)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1895, U.S. college student slang, from grouch + -y (2). Related: Grouchily ; grouchiness .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I had a headache and was incredibly grouchy . ▪ One had all the grouchy ladies in it.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. perversely irritable [syn: crabbed , crabby , cross , fussy , grumpy , bad-tempered , ill-tempered ]
Usage examples of grouchy.
The third time he scowled, began moving restlessly about the room, and when he went out later was grouchy, ill-humored, drank considerably more than he usually did, and left the waiters and the rest anarchistically small tips.
Vespasian may be a grouchy old barbarian-basher with a tight-arsed Sabine outlook but I work for him sometimes.
Always grouchy before his first cup of coffee, Qwilleran replied with irritable sarcasm, "I can imagine a SWAT team of bookkeepers in business suits and knit ties, armed with portable computers, parachuting down on the Lumbertown office and kicking in the doors.
This was just about like herding cats, since normals that were not immediately bonded after the death of their leader caste tended to get chaotic and grouchy.
He was still grouchy at times, and occasionally snapped at them for humouring an old man.
There was one group of two related figures, a mother combing the hair of her daughter, and one of three, an elderly couple dancing while a grouchy lean man played his accordion, and two superb single figures, a farmer mowing with a stubby scythe and a woman looking at the sky.