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CURMUDGEONLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does curmudgeonly mean?
• CURMUDGEONLY (adjective)
The adjective CURMUDGEONLY has 1 sense:
1. brusque and surly and forbidding
Familiarity information: CURMUDGEONLY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Brusque and surly and forbidding
Synonyms:
crusty; curmudgeonly; gruff; ill-humored; ill-humoured
Context example:
a gruff reply
Similar:
ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition)
Derivation:
curmudgeon (a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas)
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