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Meanings of crosspatch in English
Portuguese
pessoa geniosa Catalan
remugador Synonyms
Examples for "crank"
Examples for "crank"
1
Last year's debut model could crank through 600 billion operations per second.
2
Needless to say, Bennewitz was treated by many as simply a crank.
3
He had attempted in vain to take the pedal off the crank.
4
Of course, I may also have persuaded them that I'm a crank.
5
He only hoped the article wouldn't increase the rate of crank visits.
1
His opposite in character was Pepper Sneed, the grouch of the company.
2
Christian Scientists do not have either the grouch or the meddler's itch.
3
This sort of thing is enough to give any one a grouch.
4
Maybe that would take some of the grouch out of Tom Kyle.
5
I don't want you to descend to the level of the grouch.
1
My heart lurched with anger; the churl might have lowered his voice.
2
In that case I cannot be such a churl as to refuse.
3
I should be a churl if I did not tell you so.
4
But he is a mannerless churl, we will not think of him.
5
My kinswoman could have received no greater kindness at the churl's hands.
1
However, our local curmudgeon claims it creates 'a great level of annoyance'.
2
Nice to know the curmudgeon in the nightclub is alive and well.
3
He was not a curmudgeon with his money; he was no miser.
4
The old curmudgeon had gone, but the garden gate was again a-swing.
5
Even the hardest curmudgeon tends to be disarmed by a laughing infant.
1
Simply the greatest maid, confidante, factotum and grump of her generation.
2
By the psychologist's own account, he was a depressive grump for 40 years.
3
Allie the amazon stayed on the bed right next to Maria the grump.
4
The joy of Monday turned Rivers into a grump on Wednesday.
5
The taxi driver sensed my grump and never uttered a word.
Usage of crosspatch in English
1
But it's no use to ask such a crosspatch to take me.
2
He was just an old crosspatch in a natural wool tunic; I could have been wrong.
3
There, dearie, don't mind an old crosspatch.
4
Just because your father's an old crosspatch, YOU haven't lost your rights to his name and property.
5
Oh, yes, yes; we know that, crosspatch.
6
Don't you mind the old crosspatch.
7
Does Mrs. Bracken or that crosspatch Miss Adams or the weepin' willow, Mrs. Willoughby, know she isn't eleven?
8
If that old crosspatch Rebecca says 'My goodness' thirty times till four o'clock I'll fetch a tobacco worm and put it in her bonnet.
9
Then her mind crosspatched, and knowledge was connected to emotion.
10
Now here is where I come in again-QueenCrosspatch-whois telling you this story.
11
I'll give her something better than art, Kate Crosspatch.
12
She screeches horribly and Marmaduke calls her "Miss Crosspatch."
13
And then she said it louder, "Crosspatch!"
14
"And every time you do old Witchy Crosspatch makes everything seem disagreeable!"
15
He called different buffalo by name; and designated the calves by descriptive terms, such as "Whiteface" and "Crosspatch."
16
"I said crosspatch," she faltered and waited bravely for the deluge.
Frequent collocations
Crosspatch through the time