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grumpy
English
Etymology
grump +? -y
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????mpi/
Adjective
grumpy (comparative grumpier, superlative grumpiest)
- Dissatisfied and irritable.
- The old man was grumpy because he couldn’t find his glasses.
Synonyms
- cantankerous
- crabby
- cranky
- grouchy
- surly
- truculent
- See also Thesaurus:irritable
Translations
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uffish
English
Etymology
From its sound; Carroll explained the word as "a state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish."
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?f'?sh, IPA(key): /??f??/
Adjective
uffish (comparative more uffish, superlative most uffish)
- (nonce word) grumpy, ill-tempered
- 1872, Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky (poem in Through the Looking-Glass)
- And, as in uffish thought he stood, / The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, / And burbled as it came!
- 1956, Lawrence Johnstone Burpee, Canadian geographical journal (volumes 52-53)
- Its great Cham was Wells, whose highly readable prose flowed easily between the line-drawings of behemoths in the coal swamps and Neanderthal man looking uffish.
- 1872, Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky (poem in Through the Looking-Glass)
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