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   curmudgeonly

   /kəˈmʌdʒ(ə)nli/

   adjective

   • 1. (especially of an old person) bad-tempered and negative: "a curmudgeonly old man"

   Derivatives

   • 1. curmudgeonliness noun

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   What is the meaning of curmudgeon?

   • The term 'curmudgeon' is of Anglicized French origin, derived from 'coeur mediant' (discontented heart). It refers to a person who grudges praise or compliments and is ill-tempered or cantankerous. Newsp. Cutting, May 1883.

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   Where did the word curmudgeon come from?

   • It was originally believed to have come from coeur mechant, the French phrase for “evil heart,” but that theory has been long discarded. Don't worry though, you’ll know a curmudgeon when you see one: He’ll be ill-tempered and miserly, eager to shake his fist and spout disagreeable opinions.

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   What does a curmudgeon look like?

   • Old, cranky, and more than a little stubborn, a curmudgeon is the gruff, grey-haired neighbor who refuses to hand out candy at Halloween and shoos away holiday carolers with a "bah humbug!" As fickle and stubborn as the type of person it describes, curmudgeon comes to us without a history, its origins undisclosed.

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   Who is a curmudgeonly comedian?

   • Curmudgeonly comedian Gilbert Gottfried has a voice and laugh as damaging as fingernails on a blackboard. James Watson, of the Nobel Prize-winning team that discovered the structure of DNA, played up his curmudgeonly persona to the max. Or to put the question more directly: When will the curmudgeonly American music labels let it happen?

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   Curmudgeonly means often in a bad mood, especially in an old-fashioned way. Learn how to use this adjective with sentences from the Cambridge English Corpus and other sources.

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   Sep 21, 2011 · A curmudgeon is a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man, or an archaic term for a miser. Learn more about the word history, synonyms, examples, and related articles from Merriam-Webster dictionary.

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   Curmudgeonly definition: like or characteristic of a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person. See examples of CURMUDGEONLY used in a sentence.

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   Curmudgeonly means often in a bad mood, especially in an old-fashioned or grumpy way. Learn how to use this adjective with sentences and synonyms from the Cambridge English Dictionary.

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   noun. a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas. see more. Cite this entry. Style: MLA. Copy citation. Word Family. Old, cranky, and more than a little stubborn, a curmudgeon is the gruff, grey-haired neighbor who refuses to hand out candy at Halloween and shoos away holiday carolers with a "bah humbug!"

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   A curmudgeon is an old person who is often in a bad mood. Learn how to pronounce and use this word in sentences from literature and translations in different languages.

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   Curmudgeonly means easily annoyed or bad-tempered. Learn how to pronounce, use and synonymize this old-fashioned adjective with Oxford Learner's Dictionaries.