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Meanings of grumpy in anglès

Annoyed and irritable.

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Usage of grumpy in anglès
1
So much for Chinese food: Half an hour later you're grumpy again.
Double Dexter
2
He was abrupt in manner and grumpy in speech with the seamen.
The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows
3
Sure, there's the Christmas present sorted for your dopey, grumpy younger brother.
The Irish Times
4
And besides, he was most often a grumpy bones about the children.
The viking takes a knight
5
He's a very good manager, but I feel he's been unnecessarily grumpy.
The Guardian
6
The course is the result of her grumpy middle-aged husband, says Tracey.
Radio NZ
7
To say nothing of how grumpy it would make me, generally speaking.
Blood rites
8
She's grumpy with us for the next few days, worrying about Thanksgiving.
Brave girl eating: a family's struggle with anorexia
9
But our perpetually grumpy economist Geoff Simmons says it's a stunt competition.
Radio NZ
10
Where the waiting staff consists largely of the proprietor's grumpy teenage offspring.
The Irish Times
11
He was determined to bring it back to that grumpy Mr. Coreander.
The Neverending Story
12
He managed a grumpy nod, trying not to gag on diesel exhaust.
Table for five
13
They were grumpy and hard to deal with, but so was Marcia.
The increment: a novel
14
A grumpy voice and a rattle of plates and dishes was heard.
The Little Lame Prince / Rewritten for Young Readers by Margaret...
15
You're grumpy now, you'll be real cranky when you arrive in town.
Nothing to lose
16
They came in together, both of them grumpy and tousled from sleep.
Dexter’s Final Cut
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Grumpy through the time
Grumpy across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common