curmudgeon
/kəːˈmʌdʒ(ə)n
/noun
A bad-tempered or surly person.Only the worst curmudgeon could dislike this site....
- I haven't finished the book yet (she is fifteen) but my overall impression is of a changeable curmudgeon but not a monster.
- He is a bit of a curmudgeon who changes his mind all the time, but he is still likable.
Synonyms
bad-tempered person;
North American crank
informal crosspatch, sourpuss, old trout
British informal a bear with a sore head
North American informal kvetch, sorehead
Derivatives
curmudgeonliness
- Now there's a lot to be said for this genre - but apparently curmudgeonliness ain't what it used to be (now when I was a kid, we had real curmudgeons).
- Some 1,800 of his sayings are collected here, most of them expressive of his wit and erudition and not a few of them demonstrating a degree of misanthropy or at least curmudgeonliness.
- This campaign, incidentally, is being seriously impeded not just by my own curmudgeonliness, but more by the lack of a mate to drag along.
curmudgeonly
/ adjective ...- This attempt at self-denial lasted approximately one minute, after which I gave up and found myself agreeing with all the bad-tempered, curmudgeonly opinions being aired.
- If, as is usually the case, the very worst doesn't happen, you still avoid censure since who's going to be curmudgeonly enough to complain about nice weather?
- Suddenly older men are being portrayed not as grumpy, curmudgeonly old codgers, but as smart, resourceful and virile.
Origin
Late 16th century: of unknown origin.
Rhymes
- multimerization
- multimerize
- multi-metal
- multimeter
- multi-microphone
- multi-mike
- multimiked
- multimiking
- multimillion
- multimillionaire
- multimineral
- multi-mirror
- multi-mission
- multimodal
- multimodality
- multimodally
- multimode
- multimode fiber
- multimode fibre
- multimolecular
- multimorph
- multimovement
- multinational
- multinationalism
- multinationally