Usually means: Irritable, grumpy, easily annoyed temperament.
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  1. crotchety: Merriam-Webster
  2. crotchety: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crotchety: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crotchety: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crotchety: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crotchety, crotchety: Wordnik
  7. crotchety: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. crotchety: Wiktionary
  9. crotchety: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crotchety: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crotchety: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Crotchety, crotchety: Dictionary.com
  13. crotchety: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. crotchety: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Crotchety: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. crotchety: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. crotchety: Rhymezone
  18. Crotchety: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. CROTCHETY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  20. crotchety: FreeDictionary.org
  21. crotchety: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Crotchety: The Word Detective
  23. crotchety: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. crotchety: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. crotchety: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Cranky, disagreeable, or stubborn, especially if prone to odd whims or fancies.

Similar:
cantankerous, ornery, ill-natured, crotcheted, kinky, cranky, crankish, crabbed, peckish, cussed, more...

Opposite:
agreeable, amiable, affable, genial, pleasant

Types:
crabby, grouchy, irritable, bad-tempered, ill-humored, pettish, peevish, more...

Colors:
    gray,     olive,     mustard,     taupe,     sepia, more...
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Similar:
cantankerous, ornery, ill-natured, crotcheted, kinky, cranky, crankish, crabbed, peckish, cussed, more...

Opposite:
agreeable, amiable, affable, genial, pleasant

Types:
crabby, grouchy, irritable, bad-tempered, ill-humored, pettish, peevish, more...

Colors:
    gray,     olive,     mustard,     taupe,     sepia, more...



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