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English
Etymology
US 1895. From grouch + -y. Originally US college student slang.
Pronunciation
Adjective
grouchy (comparative grouchier, superlative grouchiest)
- (originally university slang) Irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain.
His boss gets grouchy when deadlines draw near.
1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXI, in Babbitt:He went in to mumble that he was "sorry, didn't mean to be grouchy," and to inquire as to her interest in movies.
1922, Henry William Fischer, “Author's Preface”, in Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field:In Berlin I once heard Susie Clemens—ill-fated, talented girl, who died so young—say to her father: "Grouchy again! They do say that you can be funny when company is around—too bad that you don't consider Henry Fisher company."
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irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain
- Dutch: knorrig (nl), prikkelbaar (nl), kwaad (nl)
- Finnish: ärtyisä (fi)
- French: grincheux (fr)
- German: genervt (de)
- Greek: κακότροπος (el) (kakótropos)
- Ancient: δύσκολος (dúskolos)
- Japanese: 不機嫌な (fukigen-na)
- Latin: ācriculus
- Maori: ārita, āritarita, kiriweti, kirikawa, pukukino, whanewhane
- Plautdietsch: brumsch
- Portuguese: irritado (pt) m, reclamão m, mal humorado m
- Russian: ворчливый (ru) (vorčlivyj)
- Scots: crabbit
- Scottish Gaelic: crosta, gruamach
- Spanish: irritable (es), malhumorado (es), gruñón (es), refunfuñón
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