Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Surly and peevish; cranky.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Surly; gruff; glum.
Wiktionary
- adj. Unhappy, dissatisfied and/or irritable, a word which is particularly applied to babies and children or adults who are acting childishly.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Collog. Surly; dissatisfied; grouty.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. annoyed and irritable
Etymologies
- grump + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Irishman Connor and the Belgian Pierre were the guides, and they didnt instil much confidence to start with as Connor was grumpy from giving up smoking and Pierre didnt speak English and was new so kept taking wrong turns and being yelled at by ´grumpy Connor.”
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“Drove home in grumpy silence, everyone was bummed about the camera disappearing/being stolen”
“That a lack of sleep can make people grumpy is hardly news.”
“But then I started noticing that I was just plain grumpy most of the time and I didn't want to get out of bed in the morning.”
“But what really gets me grumpy is the hate some people have on for dandelions.”
“May 02, 2009 at 12: 59 AM great for fucking with the neighbors tv ... like in "grumpy old men" urbanturban666 happinessiseasy”
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“I’m still grumpy from the tintinnabulation of the alarm clock bell …. the bell bell bell bell bell bell bell!”
“Nancy Parsons, "Balbricker": I was a serious thespian who had performed Shakespeare at the Pasadena Playhouse, but by the time I died in 2001, I made my peace with being best known as the grumpy no-fun anti-penis Balbricker.”
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“My personal suspicion -- hey, I'm not called grumpy for nothing, you know -- is that those who admire Nicole Krauss most are those who earnestly desire to emulate her own rise to eminence, and believe that somehow, if they attach themselves to her star, the process will be repeated for them.”
“When he gits grumpy, which is pooty consid'able often, he's death on some on 'em, -- jest walks into 'em like chain-lightnin 'into a gooseberry-bush.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘grumpy’.
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Russian Doll Words
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Words to Describe The Taste of Food
This list seeks to address a pet annoyance of mine. It occurs when chefs, food critics and travel writers, usually on television, taste something that looks either delicious or unusual and then in...
unctuous, sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami, piquant, savory, tangy, luscious, delectable, brackish and 66 more...
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Wishy-Washy-Wordie
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booger, digger, facetious, ostentatious, pretentious, lush, lumpy, grumpy, avatar, twit, twitter
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Phonestheme: GR-, the Bad Mood
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grumble, grump, grumpy, grouch, grouchy, gruff, gripe, grouse, growl, grim, grind, grimace and 1 more...
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What's That Pokémon Name?
Words used to create the names of Pokémon, which are usually portmanteaux.
bulb, dinosaur, ivy, venus, char, salamander, squirt, turtle, blast, tortoise, water, caterpillar and 525 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Miss Sunshine
she's such a joy.
bereaved, bitter, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, downcast and 405 more...
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GRE AWA
escalating, vehement, vehemence, hostility, paparazzi, regime, irrespective, scoop, exaggerated, overblown, unfetter, scrupulous and 272 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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vozcelik's Words
cranny, tummy, nook, sinister, cajole, frugal, chafe, wimp, booger, patriarchy, indifference, mire and 162 more...
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The Unique
egoist, individualist, loner, hateful, asocial, inactive, anarchist, misanthrope, fascist, disturbed, bored, isolationist and 111 more...
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Sassypants
The qualities of The Diva. Social skills, playful yet bitchy.
churlish, bitchy, cantankerous, peevish, disagreeable, quarrelsome, venomous, grumpy, groachy, crabby, dismal, snappish and 143 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.biffy, bibcock, barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibliobibuli, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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