curmudgeon

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

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

Έννοιες

αγροίκος

αρπακτικός

μίζερος

στραβόξυλο

Συνώνυμα

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

Μεταφράσεις

Griesgram

rabugento

bourru

Miesepeter

Geizhals

vrek

casmurro

burbero

Isegrim

Sauertopf

bougon

ronchon

bisbetico

musone

cascarrabias

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/kɜːˈmʌdʒ.ən/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

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.