CURMUDGEON

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("curmudgeon" is a kind of...):

golden ager; old person; oldster; senior citizen (an elderly person)

Derivation:

curmudgeonly (brusque and surly and forbidding)

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