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Definition of Crotchety
1. Adjective. Having a difficult and contrary disposition. "A cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"
Similar to: Ill-natured
Derivative terms: Crotchet, Crotchetiness, Orneriness
Definition of Crotchety
1. a. Given to crotchets; subject to whims; as, a crotchety man.
Definition of Crotchety
1. Adjective. Cranky, disagreeable, or stubborn, especially if prone to odd whims or fancies. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crotchety
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crotchety
Literary usage of Crotchety
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman by Mary Clemmer (1874)
"... crotchety and Great-hearted ":—" Principles " and Pantaloons—Below the Surface—An
Unpaintable Face—An Object of Personal Curiosity—Dick and Dolly pay ..."
2. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1891)
"In point of its subject, this work (the only one of its kind which we possess)
is very important, but its form is repulsive arid crotchety, and disfigured ..."
3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1846)
"Although, let us add, we are not desirous to disparage the labours, however
crotchety, of the author of the book on Election. The' Abbotsford edition' of ..."
4. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"'s Chapel, Westminster. Fantods. (Naut.) crotchety orders, fancies, of officers,
nicknamed jib-and-staysail-jacks. Faraday's wheel. ..."
5. The Journal of Jurisprudence and Scottish Law Magazine (1891)
"fashionable lady or crotchety bachelor brings an interdict against school or
horse-dealer, let them pause and peruse Mr. Brown's volume, which will explain ..."
6. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Crumble, v. n, I. Fall to pieces, break into crotchety, a. Whimsical, fantastic,
fantastical, odd, queer, fanciful, capricious, ..."
7. British Farmer's Magazine (1867)
"One may well-nigh feel comfortable at being '-•»lied "crotchety," if to be ...
That, by the way, 1 mny parenthetically remark, is a crotchety notion with a ..."
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