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crotchety

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
crotchety/ˈkrɒtʃəti/

▶adjective bad-tempered; irritable.

– derivatives
crotchetiness noun.

– origin C19: from sense 2 of crotchet + -y1.

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