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Definition of Curmudgeons
1. curmudgeon [n] - See also: curmudgeon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curmudgeons
Literary usage of Curmudgeons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1811)
"... aud landed babies are prey-curmudgeons, lay their baits for.' ' ie who lay
baits for the soldiers. This is the only sense I can extract from this ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1812)
"... curmudgeons lay their baits for:" that is, extravagant and foolish young people
of property are the prey which avaricious usurers seek to ensnare. ..."
3. Rosamond: A Sequel to Early Lessons by Maria Edgeworth (1821)
"Tell me, do you like these curmudgeons as well as you like me?" " Nonsense !
you know very well; but I will not answer that question: I oust, however, ..."
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