curmudgeon

Bedeutung (Englisch)

1. An ill-tempered person full of stubborn ideas or opinions, often an older man.
2. (archaic) A miser.

Konzepte

Griesgram

Miesepeter

Isegrim

Sauertopf

Geizhals

Knauser

Geizkragen

Brummbär

Spielverderber

Synonyme

grouch

spitfire

crosspatch

miser

crabber

grasping

growler

grumbler

martinet

niggard

predacious

predatory

rapacious

raptorial

ravening

ravenous

ravishing

rude

rustic

scold

scolder

scrooge

tightwad

vixen

vulturous

yenta

predaceous

ball of fire

cross grained person

boorish

clownish

common scold

Übersetzungen

bourru

rabugento

tamahkâr

musone

bougon

ronchon

bisbetico

burbero

casmurro

vrek

cascarrabias

grogneur

grognard

grincheux

avare

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/kɜːˈmʌdʒ.ən/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Numerous folk etymologies exist for this word.
An alternative spelling attested in 1600 is cornmudgin, in Holland's translation of Livy, rendering Latin frūmentārius (“corn-merchant”). This has been suggested as the original form of the word, but OED notes that curmudgeon is attested some years before this, concluding that cornmudgin was merely a nonce-word by Holland.
The word is attested from the late 1500s in the forms curmudgeon and curmudgen, and during the 17th century in numerous spelling variants, including cormogeon, cormogion, cormoggian, cormudgeon, curmudgion, curmuggion, curmudgin, curr-mudgin, curre-megient.