Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An ill-tempered person full of resentment and stubborn notions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An avaricious, churlish fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A
miser . - noun An ill-
tempered (and frequentlyold )person full ofstubborn ideas oropinions .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Hawkowl, I would gladly accede to the label curmudgeon, but I'll never be a snarkling, and I don't do groveling.
Miss Snark resembles a Shar-pei Miss Snark 2006
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Apparently I'm just a title curmudgeon this morning :
Strong Women Characters thelauderdale 2010
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But the important thing for this jaded curmudgeon is that I am no longer an Art Show virgin.
Boskone Report 2010
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This image of Bloom as traditionalist curmudgeon is considerably at odds with the impression one might have gotten from his critical writings of the 1970s and 1980s, in which Bloom advances his own intricate (if ultimately rather private, even hermetic) theory of literary production and reception that does indeed focus on poetic greatness but hardly defends tradition for tradition's sake.
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Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, the pretenses and evasions of euphemism, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of empiric fact, common sense, and native intelligence.
April « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, the pretenses and evasions of euphemism, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of empiric fact, common sense, and native intelligence.
ed abbey | an introduction & on nature « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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The chief and best-known one is the explanation of the word curmudgeon -- "from the French coeur, unknown, and mechant, a correspondent."
Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893
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Whiteside, who gives new meaning to the word curmudgeon, takes over the living room and all sorts of celebrities show up to wish the famous man a joyful holiday.
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Geri - not to detract from this overall thread - but please continue to post wherever you feel your comment needs to go - do not be deterred by one "curmudgeon" - I for one miss you posts. jerezano
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As for chatty passenger/neighbors, my experience as professional grump and curmudgeon is never get started with such folks in the pro-flight phase because if you do, they don’t let up and they are led to believe that you actually want to talk and find them engaging — as if if they are doing you a favor by keeping you busy and informed about their life.
kewpid commented on the word curmudgeon
Dear Mr Seamer,
I saw today your letter of 26 February. One of the great pleasures of private life is that I need no longer be polite to nincompoops, bigots, curmudgeons and twerps who infest local government bodies and committees such as yours. In the particular case of your committee, that pleasure is acute.
Yours sincerely … »
February 8, 2008
strev commented on the word curmudgeon
I hate curmedgeon day!
April 3, 2009
john commented on the word curmudgeon
Curmudgeon day just isn't what it used to be.
April 3, 2009
reesetee commented on the word curmudgeon
*grumble*
April 3, 2009
jonwinokur commented on the word curmudgeon
The origin of the word is unknown, but it might come from an old Scottish word that meant “murmur” or “mumble,” or from the French coeur mechant, “evil heart.” The archaic definition made it a synonym for miser, and the word has had recent currency in a somewhat milder connotation, to describe a not entirely unlikable grouch.
Jon Winokur, The Big Curmudgeon (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007)
June 8, 2009
alexz commented on the word curmudgeon
http://goo.gl/IWnUJ (Sir David Lyndesay's works). Ed. by F. Hall (J.A.H. Murray). c. 1594
this is an old word
January 19, 2013