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101crotchety — [adj] irritable, often due to old age awkward, bad tempered, bearish, cantankerous, contrary, crabby*, cranky, cross, cross grained, crusty, curmudgeonly, difficult, disagreeable, eccentric, fractious, grouchy, grumpy, irritable, obstinate,… …
102crusty — [adj1] irritable, often due to old age abrupt, bluff, blunt, brief, brusque, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabbed, crabby*, cranky, cross, curt, dour, gruff, harsh, illhumored, irascible, peevish, prickly, sarcastic, saturnine, scornful,… …
103sharp — [adj1] knifelike, cutting aciculate, acuate, acuminate, acuminous, acute, apical, barbed, briery, cuspate, cuspidate, edged, fine, ground fine, honed, horned, jagged, keen, keen edged, knife edged, needlelike, needle pointed, peaked, pointed,… …
104sour — [adj1] bad tasting; gone bad acerb, acetic, acetose, acetous, acid, acidic, acidulated, acrid, astringent, bad, biting, bitter, briny, caustic, curdled, cutting, dry, fermented, green, keen, musty, peppery, piquant, pungent, rancid, salty, sharp …
105tangy — [adj] sharp, spicy appetizing, aromatic, biting, bitter, fiery, flavorful, flavorsome, harsh, highly seasoned, hot, peppery, piquant, pungent, salty, seasoned, sweet, tart, tasty, vinegary, zesty, zippy*; concepts 537,598,613 …
106tart — [adj] bitter, sour in taste or effect acerb, acerbic, acetose, acid, acidulous, acrimonious, astringent, barbed, biting, caustic, cutting, dry, harsh, nasty, piquant, pungent, scathing, sharp, short, snappish, snappy, snippy, tangy, testy,… …
107vinegar — ► NOUN 1) a sour tasting liquid containing acetic acid, obtained by fermenting dilute alcoholic liquids and used as a condiment or for pickling. 2) sourness or peevishness of behaviour. DERIVATIVES vinegary adjective. ORIGIN from Old French vyn… …
108vinegarroon — ☆ vinegarroon [vin΄ə gə ro͞on′ ] n. [AmSp vinagrón < Sp vinagre, vinegar + ón, aug. suffix] a large whip scorpion (Mastigoproctus giganteus) found in the S U.S. and in Mexico that, when disturbed, excretes a substance having a vinegary odor …
109ill-natured — adjective having an irritable and unpleasant disposition • Ant: ↑good natured • Similar to: ↑atrabilious, ↑bilious, ↑dyspeptic, ↑liverish, ↑bristly, ↑prickly, ↑ …
110Mastigoproctus giganteus — noun large whip scorpion of Mexico and southern United States that emits a vinegary odor when alarmed • Syn: ↑vinegarroon • Hypernyms: ↑whip scorpion, ↑whip scorpion • Member Holonyms: ↑Mastigoproctus, ↑genus Mastigoproctus …
