1. Brusque and surly and forbidding
   "his curmudgeonly temper"
   - crusty, gruff, ill-humored [US], ill-humoured [Brit, Cdn]

See also: curmudgeon, ill-natured

• heaume
• heave
• heave up
• heave-ho
• heaven
• heaven-sent
• heavenly
• heavenly body
• Heavenly City
• Heavenly Jewel
• heavens
• heavenward
• heavenwardly
• heavenwards
• heaver
• heaves
• heavier-than-air
• heavier-than-air craft
• heavily
• heavily traveled
• heavily travelled
• heaviness
• heaving
• Heaviside
• Heaviside layer