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Curmudgeon Defined |
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cur·mudg·eon (kEr muh jEn)
noun
1 : A crusty, cantankerous, ill-tempered and usually old man.
2 archaic : An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl.
| If there are so many religions, how do I decide what is true? |
- cur·mud·geon·li·ness noun
- cur·mud·geon·ly adjective
That mofo Walter Cronkite is the epitome of a curmudgeon.
I'm so sorry, Dana Jo, I was acting like my curmudgeon father.
A gray-headed curmudgeon of a negro. -- W. Irving.
Compare: sorehead, crustbucket, scrooge, cretiny
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