cascarrabias

adj.

crabby, crotchety.

m.&f. s&pl.

1 grouch, misery guts.

2 crabby person, bad-tempered person, grouch, grumpy person.

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cascarrabias

► nombre masulino o femenino invariable

1 familiar grumpy person, bad-tempered person

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SMF INV grouch *

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I

adjetivo invariable (fam) cantankerous, grumpy

II

masculino y femenino (pl cascarrabias) (fam) cantankerous o grumpy person

es un viejo cascarrabias — he's a cantankerous old devil o sod (colloq)

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= grouchy [grouchier -comp., grouchiest -sup.], grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, cantankerous, bad-tempered, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], ornery, misery guts, grouch, sour puss.

Ex. The book 'The Grouchy Ladybug' describes how a ladybug can be used to teach entomology, natural selection, comparative anatomy, food chains and symbiotic relationships.

Ex. That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.

Ex. The most common problem suffered by curmudgeons turns out to be their circumscribed social life.

Ex. Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.

Ex. To attain this order within the structure of chaos, Eros divided himself into two parts: Eros as amicable, social love and Eros as cantankerous, divisive discord.

Ex. He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.

Ex. The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.

Ex. My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.

Ex. At the other end of the scale are misery guts, who are neither happy with their job role nor their employer.

Ex. We all have a grouch in our lives and if we wake up on the wrong side of the bed or take our daily mean pill, at the very nicest, we have been described as a 'grouch'.

Ex. It is no fun being around you when you are being such a sour puss.

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I

adjetivo invariable (fam) cantankerous, grumpy

II

masculino y femenino (pl cascarrabias) (fam) cantankerous o grumpy person

es un viejo cascarrabias — he's a cantankerous old devil o sod (colloq)

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= grouchy [grouchier -comp., grouchiest -sup.], grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, cantankerous, bad-tempered, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], ornery, misery guts, grouch, sour puss.

Ex: The book 'The Grouchy Ladybug' describes how a ladybug can be used to teach entomology, natural selection, comparative anatomy, food chains and symbiotic relationships.

Ex: That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.

Ex: The most common problem suffered by curmudgeons turns out to be their circumscribed social life.

Ex: Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.

Ex: To attain this order within the structure of chaos, Eros divided himself into two parts: Eros as amicable, social love and Eros as cantankerous, divisive discord.

Ex: He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.

Ex: The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.

Ex: My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.

Ex: At the other end of the scale are misery guts, who are neither happy with their job role nor their employer.

Ex: We all have a grouch in our lives and if we wake up on the wrong side of the bed or take our daily mean pill, at the very nicest, we have been described as a 'grouch'.

Ex: It is no fun being around you when you are being such a sour puss.

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cascarrabias¹

adj inv

(fam); cantankerous, grumpy

cascarrabias²

masculine and feminine

(pl cascarrabias) (fam)

cantankerous o grumpy person

es un viejo cascarrabias he's a cantankerous old devil ( o sod etc) (colloq)

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cascarrabias adjetivo invariable (fam) cantankerous, grumpy
■ sustantivo masculino y femenino (pl

◊ cascarrabias ) grouch (colloq)

cascarrabias
I mf inv familiar bad-tempered person
familiar misery
II adjetivo grumpy: no seas cascarrabias, don't be such a misery guts o don't be such a stick in the mud

'cascarrabias' also found in these entries:
English:
grouch
- irascible
- crank

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cascarrabias Fam

♦ adj inv

grouchy, cranky;

un viejo cascarrabias an old grouch, Br an old misery-guts

♦ nmf inv

grouch, Br misery-guts,

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cascarrabias

m/f inv fam

grouch fam

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cascarrabias nmfs & pl, fam : grouch, crab