Usually means: Grumpy old person; dislikes change.
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  1. curmudgeon: Merriam-Webster
  2. curmudgeon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curmudgeon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. curmudgeon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. curmudgeon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Curmudgeon, curmudgeon: Wordnik
  7. curmudgeon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. curmudgeon: Wiktionary
  9. curmudgeon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. curmudgeon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. curmudgeon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Curmudgeon, curmudgeon: Dictionary.com
  13. curmudgeon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Curmudgeon (song), Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Curmudgeon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. curmudgeon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. curmudgeon: Rhymezone
  18. Curmudgeon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. curmudgeon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. CURMUDGEON: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. curmudgeon: FreeDictionary.org
  22. curmudgeon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Curmudgeon: The Word Detective
  24. curmudgeon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Curmudgeon: World Wide Words
  26. curmudgeon: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. Curmudgeon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  28. curmudgeon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. curmudgeon: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. Curmudgeon: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  An ill-tempered person full of stubborn ideas or opinions, often an older man.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A miser.

Similar:
grundy, grudgeholder, cynic, doctrinaire, opinionist, malcontent, objectionist, hypercritic, bigotry, contrarian, more...

Opposite:
optimist, idealist, pollyanna

Adjectives:
old, crusty, miserly, little, rich, surly, stingy, cantankerous, muzzled, mean, selfish

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    gray,     olive,     brown,     taupe,     charcoal, more...


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Similar:
grundy, grudgeholder, cynic, doctrinaire, opinionist, malcontent, objectionist, hypercritic, bigotry, contrarian, more...

Opposite:
optimist, idealist, pollyanna

Adjectives:
old, crusty, miserly, little, rich, surly, stingy, cantankerous, muzzled, mean, selfish

Colors:
    gray,     olive,     brown,     taupe,     charcoal, more...



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