GROUCHY

crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered

(adjective) annoyed and irritable

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

grouchy (comparative grouchier, superlative grouchiest)

(originally, student slang) Irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain. [From 1895]

Synonyms

• cranky, grumpy, tetchy; See also irritable

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

7 November 2024

ERASE

(verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; “Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!”


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An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.

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