adv
In the act of groping.
adj
(obsolete) contentious; quarrelsome
adj
(Canada, UK) Ill-tempered, disagreeable.
n
(derogatory) A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.
adj
Like a codger; old and ill-tempered.
adj
(Scotland) Grouchy, cantankerous.
n
The quality of being cracky.
n
(informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
n
The writings or ideas of a crank.
adj
Characterised by cranking or crankiness; cranky
n
(informal) A work or a situation that induces cringeing; something very embarrassing.
adj
Alternative form of crotchety [Cranky, disagreeable, or stubborn, especially if prone to odd whims or fancies.]
adj
(chiefly Britain) Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
adj
(simile) Particularly ill-natured and disagreeable.
n
Alternative form of crosspatch [A grumpy, bad-tempered or irascible person.]
n
A grumpy, bad-tempered or irascible person.
adj
crotchety; whimsical or eccentric
adj
Cranky, disagreeable, or stubborn, especially if prone to odd whims or fancies.
adj
(informal, figuratively, of a person or behavior) Short-tempered and gruff but, sometimes, with a harmless or benign inner nature.
n
(slang) Someone whose feelings are very easily hurt, often by trivial matters.
n
In Australia, a formerly widespread belief that Australian cultural works, especially in literature and the arts, were inferior to those produced in Britain and Europe.
n
(figuratively) An excessively negative or pessimistic person.
adv
In a manner that suggests fishing, such as groping in search of something, or seeking compliments.
adj
(UK, dialect) crabbed; peevish
adj
Irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome.
adj
(UK, dialect) cross; bad-tempered
adj
(obsolete) peevish; froward
n
(countable, dated) A bad-tempered person.
adj
(Bermuda) Tending to grumble; grumpy, irascible.
adj
Alternative form of gripey [Tending to gripe.]
n
The act of one who grizzles; peevish whining.
adj
Crying or whingeing in a bad-tempered or irritable way.
adj
(informal) Of a person or body part, sexually attractive such that it causes others to desire groping.
n
(uncommon) Groping; the act of, or an instance of, groping.
adj
Alternative form of gropy [(colloquial) Characterised by groping, or sexual touching.]
n
An act of groping; a grope.
adj
(colloquial) Characterised by groping, or sexual touching.
n
A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor.
n
(informal) A habitually grumpy or complaining person.
n
someone with a grumpy temperament
n
Alternative form of grumpy pants [(countable, informal, sometimes used attributively) A person who is currently in a bad mood or is habitually cranky.]
n
(obsolete) A vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.
v
(Northern England, Liverpudlian) to be in a bad mood; be grumpy
n
(archaic) An obnoxious, whinging, or peevish person.
adj
(figuratively) In a state of agitation; easily alarmed.
n
(informal) A person who tends to be bad-tempered in the morning.
n
Alternative form of mulligrubs (“sullenness; sulky behaviour”) [(obsolete) colic]
n
Alternative form of miryachit [(obsolete) A nervous disorder said to have been encountered in Siberia, characterized by a jumping tic and the involuntary imitation of the words and actions of other people.]
adj
(informal) Prone to nag, irritable.
n
Alternative form of nidderling [(archaic) Someone who is weak and cowardly.]
n
Alternative form of niefling [(rare) A nibling.]
n
(idiomatic) An emotional state where someone is in a bad mood because he/she has been offended by or taken exception (objected) to some action. This action usually involves being seen in an inferior light to another person.
n
A fit of temper; a tantrum.
adj
Constantly complaining, whining; childishly fretful.
v
(archaic, intransitive) To be peevish; to sulk.
n
A person who habitually pouts; a sourpuss
adj
(rare, obsolete) bad-mannered
adj
(US, dialect, dated) argumentative; quarrelsome; cantankerous
n
Alternative spelling of snit fit [(informal, US) A tantrum; an excessive display of anger or disapproval.]
adv
Alternative form of snivelingly [While sniveling.]
n
Alternative form of snotty (“midshipman”) [(Australia, slang) The lion's mane jellyfish, which secretes a mucus that can foul fishing nets.]
adv
With snuffing or sniffling.
n
(informal) Somebody who finds it difficult to scold or punish.
n
(Australia, Atlantic Canada, New Zealand, slang) A sulk or complaint; an act of sulking.
n
Alternative spelling of sourpuss [(informal) A person who is habitually gloomy, sullen or miserable; a grouch. A scowling person.]
n
A cringing, fawning person.
adj
unpredictable or jumpy
adj
(slang, by analogy) angry or irritated
n
(Britain) A bad mood or temper (see stroppy.)
adj
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ornery, fractious, belligerent, or obstreperous, and hence difficult to deal with.
adj
(UK, dialect) Alternative form of struntish (“sullen”)
n
(slang) One who has an amputated arm or arms.
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