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curmudgeon
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Wiktionary
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n. 1 (context archaic English) A miser. 2 An ill-tempered (and frequently old) person full of stubborn ideas or opinions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curmudgeon \Cur*mudg"eon\ (k?r-m?j"?n), n. [OE. cornmudgin, where -mudgin is prob. from OF. muchier, mucier, F. musser to hide; of uncertain origin; cf. OE. muchares skulking thieves, E. miche, micher.] An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Curmudgeon may refer to: Dyskolos , sometimes translated The Curmudgeon , an ancient Greek comic play by Menander
Usage examples of curmudgeon.
Tell Fracto to get lost and take his friend Curmudgeon Cloud with him!
He was sharply observational but generally nonconfrontational -- his material the sort that would label him a junior curmudgeon but not seriously controversial.
I wonder if their work makes them curmudgeons, or if curmudgeonliness is a qualification for the job?
Any culture which fails to uphold the rights of curmudgeons, no matter how inconvenient, no matter how tempting it is to cut corners `this once,' degenerates until no one has any rights, not even nice people.
So many of his archetypes were curmudgeons, or at least he imagined them that way.
Dan Needham lived in Water-house Hall, so named for some deceased curmudgeon of a classicist, a Latin teacher named Amos Waterhouse, whose rendering of Christmas carols in Latin-I was sure-could not have been worse than the gloomy muddle made of them by Dan and Owen Meany.
There were some old curmudgeons on the faculty-and some young fuddy-duddies, too-who objected to Owen's style.
Oh, he had the reputation for being a curmudgeon, and he didn't suffer fools gladly, and often he seemed to have no tolerance for people at all.