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grouchy

/ˈɡɹaʊt͡ʃi/

grouchy adjective: irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain.

Adjective

grouchy (comparative grouchier, superlative grouchiest)

  1. Irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain.
    • His boss gets grouchy when deadlines draw near.
    • Not that young Pat had a nasty temper, or was grouchy as his father had feared.1911, Jack London, chapter III, in The Abysmal Brute
    Synonyms:
    cranky, grumpy, tetchy

grouchy meaning in Malayalam

grouchy in Malayalam

irritable, grumpy, cross
അസംതൃപ്നായ, ദുർമ്മുഖമുള്ള, മുരട്ടുസ്വഭാവമായ, വക്രവൃത്തിയായ, കോപിയായ, പരുക്കൻ രീതിയുള്ള

Examples of grouchy in a sentence

  • 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, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXI, in Babbitt:
  • In Berlin I once heard Susie Clemens—ill-fated, talented girl, who died so young—say to her father: "Grouchy again!1922, Henry William Fischer, “Author's Preface”, in Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field:

Synonyms of grouchy

Forms of grouchy

comparativegrouchier
superlativegrouchiest

Origin of grouchy

US 1895. From grouch + -y. Originally US college student slang.

Words formed from grouchy

Words that rhyme with grouchy

Questions about grouchy

What does grouchy mean?
Grouchy means irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain.
What is grouchy in Malayalam?
Grouchy in Malayalam is അസംതൃപ്നായ, ദുർമ്മുഖമുള്ള, മുരട്ടുസ്വഭാവമായ. See Grouchy meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use grouchy in a sentence?
He went in to mumble that he was "sorry, didn't mean to be grouchy," and to inquire as to her interest in movies.
What part of speech is grouchy?
Grouchy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce grouchy?
Grouchy is pronounced /ˈɡɹaʊt͡ʃi/.

Words near grouchy in the dictionary

  1. grouchiness
  2. grouchinesses
  3. grouching
  4. grouchingly
  5. Groucho glasses
  6. grouchy
  7. groud
  8. Groudle Glen
  9. grouds
  10. grough
  11. groughs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grouchy (page history and authors); grouchy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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