crotchety

crotchety
Synonyms and related words:
abnormal, anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic, arbitrary, bearish, breakaway, cankered, capricious, clashing, conflicting, contradicting, contradictory, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, crank, crankish, cranky, cross-grained, deviant, deviative, different, dissident, divergent, dotty, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fey, flaky, freakish, funny, harebrained, hostile, humorsome, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, inimical, irregular, kinky, kooky, maggoty, moody, motiveless, nonconformist, notional, nutty, odd, oddball, opposing, oppositional, oppugnant, ornery, peculiar, perverse, petulant, queer, quirky, reactionary, recalcitrant, renitent, repugnant, resistant, revolutionary, screwball, screwy, singular, strange, temperamental, twisted, unconventional, unnatural, unreasonable, unrestrained, vagarious, vagrant, vinegarish, vinegary, wacky, wanton, waspish, wayward, whimsical

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  • Crotchety — Crotch et*y (kr?ch ?t ?), a. Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • crotchety — index restive Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • crotchety — 1825, from CROTCHET (Cf. crotchet) whim or fancy + Y (Cf. y) (2). But the sense evolution is obscure …   Etymology dictionary

  • crotchety — [adj] irritable, often due to old age awkward, bad tempered, bearish, cantankerous, contrary, crabby*, cranky, cross, cross grained, crusty, curmudgeonly, difficult, disagreeable, eccentric, fractious, grouchy, grumpy, irritable, obstinate,… …   New thesaurus

  • crotchety — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ irritable …   English terms dictionary

  • crotchety — [kräch′ē] adj. 1. full of peculiar whims or stubborn notions; cantankerous; eccentric 2. having the nature of a crotchet crotchetiness n …   English World dictionary

  • crotchety — adjective Date: 1825 1. given to crotchets ; subject to whims, crankiness, or ill temper < a crotchety old man > 2. full of or arising from crotchets < a crotchety style > • crotchetiness noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • crotchety — [[t]krɒ̱tʃɪti[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n A crotchety person is bad tempered and easily irritated. [INFORMAL] ...a crotchety old man. Syn: grumpy …   English dictionary

  • crotchety — crotch|et|y [ˈkrɔtʃıti US ˈkra: ] adj [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: crotchet small hook, strange idea (15 20 centuries), from French crochet; CROCHET] easily annoyed or made slightly angry = ↑grumpy ▪ a crotchety old man …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • crotchety — crotch|et|y [ kratʃəti ] adjective INFORMAL someone who is crotchety gets easily annoyed …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • crotchety — adjective often slightly angry or annoyed: a crotchety old man …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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