Ill-tempered+person
21crab — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba; akin to Old High German krebiz crab and perhaps to Old English ceorfan to carve more at carve Date: before 12th century 1. plural crabs also crab any of… …
22curmudgeon — (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) n. [kur MUJ un] a grouchy or ill tempered person. The prickly, old curmudgeon wouldn t let us walk through his yard without yelling at us. SYN.: grouch, *grump, *bear, *grizzly bear, crab, malcontent,… …
23grouch — (n.) ill tempered person, 1896, earlier state of irritable glumness (1890, in expressions such as to have a grouch on), U.S. college student slang, of uncertain origin, possibly from grutching complaint, grumbling (see GRUTCH (Cf. grutch)). The… …
24tartar — n. 1. Argol, bitartrate of potash (crude). 2. Ill tempered person …
25crabstick — crab•stick [[t]ˈkræbˌstɪk[/t]] n. 1) a cane or club made of wood of the crab tree 2) Older Use. an ill tempered person • Etymology: 1695–1705 …
26Tartar — Tar•tar [[t]ˈtɑr tər[/t]] n. 1) peo a member of any of various Mongolian and Turkic peoples who, under Genghis Khan and his successors, ruled parts of central and W Asia and E Europe until the 18th century 2) peo Tatar 1), Tatar 2) 3) (often… …
27grump — /grʌmp / (say grump) noun 1. a surly or ill tempered person. 2. the grumps, a bad mood. {possibly suggested by grunt and imitative of a noise of displeasure} …
28crabstick — [krab′stik΄] n. 1. a stick, cane, or club made of the wood of the crab apple tree or some other wood 2. Archaic an ill tempered person …
29annoying galling chafing irritating nettlesome pesky pestiferous pestilent plaguy plaguey teasing vexatious vexing — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …
30argumentative contentious disputatious disputative litigious — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …
