curmudgeon
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
curmudgeon (plural curmudgeons)
- (archaic) A miser.
- An ill-tempered person full of stubborn ideas or opinions.
- Synonyms: crank
- There's a cranky curmudgeon working at the hospital who gives all the patients and other doctors flak.
- John Doe's old age and stubborn aversion to new ideas make him a curmudgeon of a candidate.
- 1996, Jeet Heer, Gravitas, Autumn 1996 ↗
- After a while, as cultural debates became more polarized, the editorial tone of the New Criterion went from being charmingly curmudgeon to being bitterly shrill.
- 2006, The New York Times
- How to Be a Curmudgeon on the Internet
- 2007, The Times
- How should I respond, without appearing to be a curmudgeon?
- French: bourru, baderne, ganache, rombière
- German: Griesgram, Miesepeter, Spielverderber
- Italian: burbero, musone
- Portuguese: rabugento, casmurro, caturra
- Russian: грубия́н
- Spanish: cascarrabias
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