Grumpy - English meaning

adjective

Becoming annoyed or angry very easily

adjective

Resembling or likened to a bear, typically in being rough, surly, or clumsy.

Usage examples:

A bearish figure with mutton chop whiskers

adjective

Bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative.

Usage examples:

He can be a cantankerous old fossil at times

adjective

Having a difficult and contrary disposition

adjective

Annoyed and tending to argue and complain

Usage examples:

By dinner, we were all tired and cantankerous.

adjective

Rude in a mean-spirited and surly way.

Usage examples:

It seems churlish to complain

adjective

Rude, unfriendly, and unpleasant

Usage examples:

[ + to infinitive ] they invited me to dinner and i thought it would be churlish to refuse., i chur…

adjective

(of handwriting) very small and difficult to decipher.

Usage examples:

His handwriting is crabbed and hideous

verb

Move sideways or obliquely.

Usage examples:

He began crabbing sideways across the roof

verb

Grumble about something petty.

Usage examples:

On picnics, i would crab about sand in my food

adjective

Irritable.

Usage examples:

A rather crabby old man

adjective

Easily annoyed and complaining

Usage examples:

You're very crabby today. what's bothering you?

adjective

Irritable.

Usage examples:

He was tired and crotchety

adjective

Easily annoyed or angered

Usage examples:

After ten hours in the car, we were all getting crotchety.

adjective

Having or acting as a hard outer layer or covering.

Usage examples:

Crusty bread

noun

A young person who is homeless or travels constantly, has a shabby appearance, and rejects conventional values.

Usage examples:

She cuts a curious figure amid the crusties and mud-stained tree-huggers

adjective

(especially of an old person) bad-tempered and negative.

Usage examples:

A curmudgeonly old man

adjective

Often in a bad mood

Usage examples:

A superb drama about a curmudgeonly old man, "i don't want to sound curmudgeonly, but i really dese…

adjective

Easily annoyed

Usage examples:

An increasingly ill-tempered match saw three players sent off before half-time.

adjective

Having or showing a tendency to be easily angered.

Usage examples:

An irascible and difficult man

adjective

Quickly aroused to anger

adjective

(of a person) easily made angry

Usage examples:

A cranky, irascible artist

adjective

Having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed.

Usage examples:

She was tired and irritable

adjective

Strongly flavoured with pepper or other hot spices.

Usage examples:

A hot, peppery dish

adjective

Having a spicy flavour like pepper

Usage examples:

This salad has a sharp peppery flavour., he was a famously peppery lawyer.

adjective

Covered in prickles.

Usage examples:

Masses of prickly brambles

adjective

Having sharp points that stick out, or causing a stinging feeling

Usage examples:

A prickly cactus, the wool felt prickly and itchy against his skin.

adjective

Tending to become angry quickly and easily

adjective

Bad-tempered and unfriendly.

Usage examples:

The porter left with a surly expression

adjective

Not wanting to please you or to be friendly

Usage examples:

The clerks in this post office are sullen, surly, and inefficient.

adjective

Easily irritated; impatient and somewhat bad-tempered.

Usage examples:

His testy, disapproving father

adjective

Lacking patience and feeling upset

Usage examples:

My wife gets testy if we don’t have dessert.

adjective

Irritable and bad-tempered.

Usage examples:

She had always been tetchy and impatient with him

adjective

Easily made angry, unhappy, or upset

Usage examples:

Be careful what you say to anna - she's been a little tetchy lately.

adjective

Easily upset or offended; oversensitive.

Usage examples:

She's a little touchy about her age

adjective

Easily angered or made unhappy

Usage examples:

She’s touchy about people borrowing her books., politics can be a very touchy subject in some famil…

adjective

Readily expressing anger or irritation.

Usage examples:

He had a waspish tongue

adjective

Likely to make sharp, slightly cruel remarks; having a slightly angry and unpleasant manner

Usage examples:

She had a waspish tongue which could hurt.