Meldrew


Meldrew

(ˈmɛldruː) ninformal a person, esp a middle-aged or elderly man, who is habitually peevish, pessimistic, and cynical; curmudgeon[C20: named after Victor Meldrew, curmudgeonly hero of the 1990s BBC television situation comedy One Foot in the Grave, written by David Renwick] ˈMeldrewish adj