Crotchety

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crotchety \Crotch"et*y\ (kr?ch"?t-?), a.
     Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  crotchety
       adj : having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous
             and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers [syn: {cantankerous},
              {ornery}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  89 Moby Thesaurus words for "crotchety":
     abnormal, anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic, arbitrary,
     bearish, breakaway, cankered, capricious, clashing, conflicting,
     contradicting, contradictory, counteractant, counteracting,
     counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, crank, crankish,
     cranky, cross-grained, deviant, deviative, different, dissident,
     divergent, dotty, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, fanciful,
     fantasied, fantastic, fey, flaky, freakish, funny, harebrained,
     hostile, humorsome, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, inimical, irregular,
     kinky, kooky, maggoty, moody, motiveless, nonconformist, notional,
     nutty, odd, oddball, opposing, oppositional, oppugnant, ornery,
     peculiar, perverse, petulant, queer, quirky, reactionary,
     recalcitrant, renitent, repugnant, resistant, revolutionary,
     screwball, screwy, singular, strange, temperamental, twisted,
     unconventional, unnatural, unreasonable, unrestrained, vagarious,
     vagrant, vinegarish, vinegary, wacky, wanton, waspish, wayward,
     whimsical