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
- adjective Easily irritated; grumpy and bad-tempered.
- adjective Not working properly; faulty or unreliable.
crusty — full definition
- adjective Having a hard, crisp outer layer, especially bread.
- adjective Grumpy or short-tempered, often in an old, curmudgeonly way.