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Crotchety

Crotchety Meaning & Definition
Crotchety Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Crotchety?

[adj] having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

Synonyms | Synonyms for Crotchety: cantankerous | ill-natured | ornery

Related Terms | Find terms related to Crotchety: abnormal | anomalous | antagonistic | antipathetic | arbitrary | bearish | breakaway | cankered | capricious | clashing | conflicting | contradicting | contradictory | counteractant | counteracting | counteractive | countervailing | counterworking | crank | crankish | cranky | cross-grained | deviant | deviative | different | dissident | divergent | dotty | eccentric | erratic | exceptional | fanciful | fantasied | fantastic | fey | flaky | freakish | funny | harebrained | hostile | humorsome | idiocratic | idiosyncratic | inimical | irregular | kinky | kooky | maggoty | moody | motiveless | nonconformist | notional | nutty | odd | oddball | opposing | oppositional | oppugnant | ornery | peculiar | perverse | petulant | queer | quirky | reactionary | recalcitrant | renitent | repugnant | resistant | revolutionary | screwball | screwy | singular | strange | temperamental | twisted | unconventional | unnatural | unreasonable | unrestrained | vagarious | vagrant | vinegarish | vinegary | wacky | wanton | waspish | wayward | whimsical

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Crotchety In Webster's Dictionary

\Crotch"et*y\ (kr?ch"?t-?), a. Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man.

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