curmudgeonly

[ ker-muhj-uhn ]

as inpenurious
as instingy
as insurly
as inhard-fisted
as inpinching
as inScotch
as incrotchety
as ineconomical

Synonyms for curmudgeonly

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WORD ORIGIN

1570s, of unknown origin; the suggestion, based on a misreading of a garbled note from Johnson, that it is from French coeur mechant "evil heart" is not taken seriously; the first syllable may be cur "dog." Liberman says the word "must have been borrowed from Gaelic (and references muigean "disagreeable person"), with variant spelling of intensive prefix ker-. Related: Curmudgeonly.