Mina’s always a bit grumpy first thing in the morning.
明娜早上起来总是有点脾气。
—grumpilyadverbadv
—grumpiness noun [uncountableU]
Examples from the Corpus
grumpy• Come back and see me when you're less grumpy.• He is as cheerful in his workday as Stadler is grumpy.• Southall was grumpy and unsociable, not like him.• Hywel is a bit grumpy, and Wyn's so cheerful.• I still felt grumpy, but as the preacher got going I also discovered that somehow I wanted him to do well.• Homer, the grumpydad, works in a nuclear plant and is a sentimentalslob.• She sits in a soft curve at her easel, gently swabbing away three centuries from a grumpy London sky.• a grumpy old man• But I had reverted to my ordinary, grumpy, perennially dissatisfied self.
Origingrumpy
(1700-1800)grump“grumpy person”((18-21 centuries)), probably from the sound of someone complaining