Querulant

Meaning

1. (masculine, weak) querulant
2. (masculine, weak) grouser, griper (someone who constantly complains, especially about perceived wrongs)
3. (broadly, masculine, weak) someone who obstinately and truculently advances their (unpopular) opinions; someone who seems to enjoy antagonizing the majority; a pighead, maverick

Concepts

troublemaker

grouser

complainer

eccentric

querulous

fussbudget

agent provocateur

querulant

brawler

Synonyms

Nörgler

Exzentriker

Exzentrikerin

Knurrhahn

Meckerer

Querkopf

Querulantin

Störenfried

streitsüchtig

Unruhestifter

zänkisch

Meckerfritze

Brummbär

Meckerliese

Translations

fauteur de troubles

trublion

piantagrane

baş belası

desordeiro

querulant

perturbateur

excentrique

difficile

παράξενος

anxieuse

plaideur

quérulent

tatillon

rouspéteur

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

bäffzgi

Basel-Landschaft

bälli

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kveʁuˈlant/

Etymology

18th century, borrowed from Medieval Latin querulāns. In its broadened sense associated with unrelated quer (“cross, diagonal”).