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gruñón — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cranky adjective Easily irritated; grumpy and bad-tempered.
  • crusty adjective Having a hard, crisp outer layer, especially bread.
  • fretful adj Given to fretting.
  • grouch noun A person who complains often or is easily irritated.
  • grouchy adjective Easily irritated and inclined to complain.
  • grumpy adj Easily annoyed and bad-tempered.
  • kvetch verb To whine or complain, often needlessly and incessantly.

Senses

gruñón is used for these senses in English:

  • cranky Grouchy, grumpy, irritable; easily upset.
  • crusty (informal, figuratively, of a person or behavior) Short-tempered and gruff but, sometimes, with a harmless or benign inner nature.
  • fretful Irritable; bad-tempered; grumpy; peevish.
  • grouch One who is grumpy or irritable. [from the early 20th c]
  • grouchy (originally, student slang) Irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain. [From 1895]
  • grumpy Dissatisfied and irritable.
  • kvetch A person who endlessly whines or complains; a person who finds fault with anything.

cranky — full definition

  1. adjective Easily irritated; grumpy and bad-tempered.
  2. adjective Not working properly; faulty or unreliable.

crusty — full definition

  1. adjective Having a hard, crisp outer layer, especially bread.
  2. adjective Grumpy or short-tempered, often in an old, curmudgeonly way.

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