crotchety
crotc·hety
adjective
1.
having a difficult and contrary disposition
- “a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady” Dorothy Sayers
Origin
From crotchet + -y, using crotchet in the 16th-century sense of a whim or fancy.
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