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CURMUDGEON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does curmudgeon mean?
• CURMUDGEON (noun)
The noun CURMUDGEON has 1 sense:
1. a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas
Familiarity information: CURMUDGEON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("curmudgeon" is a kind of...):
golden ager; old person; oldster; senior citizen (an elderly person)
Derivation:
curmudgeonly (brusque and surly and forbidding)
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