crotchety• He was warm, gregarious, crotchety, and humorous.• Meanwhile, in personal life he became a reasonably prosperous but crotchetylandowner.• When we were in Germany, we rented a room from a crotchety old woman named Brunhilde.• The old woman had got very crotchety since being warmed up.
Origincrotchety
(1800-1900)crotchet“small hook, strange idea”((15-20 centuries)), from Frenchcrochet; → CROCHET