| 单词 | curmudgeon |
| 释义 | curmudgeon (once / 13251 pages) n Old, cranky, and more than a little stubborn, a curmudgeon is the gruff, grey-haired neighbor who refuses to hand out candy at Halloween and shoos away holiday carolers with a "bah humbug!" As fickle and stubborn as the type of person it describes, curmudgeon comes to us without a history, its origins undisclosed. It was originally believed to have come from coeur mechant, the French phrase for “evil heart,” but that theory has been long discarded. Don't worry though, you’ll know a curmudgeon when you see one: He’ll be ill-tempered and miserly, eager to shake his fist and spout disagreeable opinions. WORD FAMILYcurmudgeon: curmudgeonly, curmudgeons USAGE EXAMPLESSome neighbors saw him as a curmudgeon whose life inside the shuttered storefront remained a mystery. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) An earnest young police officer in Ithaca, New York, bravely captured the holiday season’s biggest curmudgeon, the Grinch. Time(Dec 14, 2016) As Salinger, the formidable Chris Cooper has a brief but masterly turn, sympathetically rendering the writer as a curmudgeon defending his literary offspring. Seattle Times(Nov 10, 2016) n a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas Hyper golden ager, old person, oldster, senior citizen an elderly person |
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