crotchety
UK/ˈkɹɒtʃ.ə.tɪ//ˈkɹɑ.t͡ʃɪ.ti/
crotchety adjective: cranky, disagreeable, or stubborn, especially if prone to odd whims or fancies.
Adjective
crotchety (comparative crotchetier or more crotchety, superlative crotchetiest or most crotchety)
- Cranky, disagreeable, or stubborn, especially if prone to odd whims or fancies.
- He wouldnt even let old Wilkie touch it do you remember Gerald but always gathered it himself and made his own julep. He was as crochety about his julep as an old maid, measuring everything by a recipe in his head.1929, William Faulkner, “The Sound and the Fury”, in The Sound and the Fury & As I Lay Dying, New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, published 1946, →OCLC, page 184
- He has a happy home life, two sitcoms on the go and a new book in the offing. So why is the comedian, actor and Observer columnist still so crotchety?2019 November 3, Andrew Anthony, “David Mitchell: ‘I have no reason to have these apocalyptic musings’”, in The Observer, →ISSN
crotchety meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
crotchety in Urdu
- انوکھا, کج, موجی, نرالا, تیڑھا
crotchety in Malayalam
- irritable, bad-tempered, irascible
- മൂർഖസ്വഭാവമായ, താന്തോന്നിയായ, ദുരഭിമാനമുള്ള, വിപരീതനടപടിയോടുകൂടിയ, ലോലചിത്തനായ, പെട്ടെന്നു കോപിക്കുന്ന
crotchety in Kannada
- ಮುಂಗೋಪಿಯಾದ, ಕಿರಿಕಿರಿ ಸ್ವಭಾವದ, ತಿಕ್ಕಲು ಮನಸ್ಸಿನ, ಸುಲಭವಾಗಿ ಒಲಿಯದ
Forms of crotchety
| comparative | crotchetier |
|---|---|
| comparative | more crotchety |
| superlative | crotchetiest |
| superlative | most crotchety |
| alternative form | crochety |
Origin of crotchety
From crotchet + -y, using crotchet in the 16th-century sense of a whim or fancy.
Words formed from crotchety
Questions about crotchety
- What does crotchety mean?
- Crotchety means cranky, disagreeable, or stubborn, especially if prone to odd whims or fancies.
- What is crotchety in Urdu?
- Crotchety in Urdu is انوکھا, کج, موجی. See Crotchety meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is crotchety?
- Crotchety is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce crotchety?
- Crotchety is pronounced /ˈkɹɒtʃ.ə.tɪ/ (UK).
Words near crotchety in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: crotchety (page history and authors); crotchety (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); crotchety (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); crotchety (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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