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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Capriciously stubborn or eccentric; perverse.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Characterized by odd fancies or crotchets; fantastic or eccentric in thought; whimsical.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Cranky, disagreeable, or stubborn, especially if prone to odd whims or fancies.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Given to crotchets; subject to whims.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having a difficult and contrary disposition

Etymologies

  1. From crotchet + -y, using crotchet in the 16th century sense of a whim or a fancy (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “It's what I call a crotchety conscience -- always in the way of your doing anything like anybody else.”

    Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Vol. I

  • “Yeah, the clothes alone would put the crotch in crotchety.”

    Slimbo's Jazz Fest Report

  • “Most recently, Boyle was known as the crotchety father on the television comedy series Everybody loves Raymond.”

    Archive 2006-12-01

  • “But the actor, best known as crotchety one-legged pensioner Winston from Still Game, is delighted to have come through the eventful season with what he believes is a fantastic second series of his hit sitcom.”

    The Daily Record - Home

  • “He sure isn't doing anything to help erase that "crotchety" image, huh.”

    McCain On Reporters: "Little Jerks"

  • “Best known as the crotchety, chainsaw-voiced bailiff Selma Hacker on television’s Night Court from 1984 to 1985, Diamond embodied in her writing and her comedy routines the quintessential cynical, jaded character.”

    Selma Diamond.

  • “I mean come on, "crotchety" ... seems like someone has Clint Eastwood's crotch on their mind, so don't write a crappy review because he won't give you any!”

    FlickFilosopher.com

  • “Dass es Erd 'und Himmel hören' &c.] 'If, therefore, a certain otherwise accredited Witness calls him a kind of crotchety, fantastic person, mostly brooding over strange thoughts and enterprises, this can only have meant that Caspar”

    The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works

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