grouch

• “LIke I care that an old grouch is going to appear on SNL what a joke!!!!!!”

  McCain to make SNL appearance

• “Say “computer lingo” to most people, and they’ll rattle off their rudimentary knowledge of the meaning of byte, hacker and cybersex gritch the last marries digiporn to the portmanteau of grouch and glitch, producing a phrase meaning “hacker’s complaint about the encryption of dirty pictures”.”

  Simon & Schuster: No Uncertain Terms

• “Elmo is creepy even when I was kid I thought he was one of the stupiest muppets ever made and Oscar the grouch is a total pussy now he lives in a fucking recycling bin, Jim Henson must be rolling over in his grave.”

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• “As the convicts would say, it had a "grouch" against the world.”

  Chapter 5

• “But the Templeton's most famous baby is the young field of Positive Psychology, launched by University of Pennsylvania's Martin Seligman after his five-year-old daughter accused him of being a "grouch" and he resolved improve his outlook.”

  Barbara Ehrenreich: The Right's Academic Universe

• “Ha! I think I see myself!" exclaimed the "grouch," as he looked for a seaweed-cushioned rock whereon to sit.”

  The Moving Picture Girls at Sea or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real

• “He and the girls, in common with the other members of the Comet Film Company, had to portray many different scenes in the course of a season's work, and though some of it was distasteful, it was seldom objected to by anyone, unless perhaps by Pepper Sneed, the "grouch," or perhaps by Mr. Wellington Bunn, an actor of the old school, who could not reconcile himself to the silent drama.”

  The Moving Picture Girls at Sea or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real

• “Well, you'll get some without looking for it, if you ride that mule," declared the "grouch," as he walked off.”

  The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays

• “Sneed, who had come to be known as the "grouch" of the company.”

  The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays

• “Mr. Sneed was leaning, and the next instant the "grouch" went down in”

  The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays

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