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"etymology_text": "crotchet + -y, using crotchet in the 16th-century sense of a whim or fancy.",
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"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
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"form": "more crotchety",
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]
},
{
"form": "crotchetiest",
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"superlative"
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},
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"ref": "1929, William Faulkner, “JUNE SECOND 1910”, in The Sound and the Fury, Random House, Inc., published ≥1956, page 184",
"text": "and Gerald‘s grandfather always picked his own mint before breakfast, while the dew was still on it. He wouldnt even let old Wilkie touch it do you remember Gerald but always gathered it himself and made his own julep. He was as crochety about his julep as an old maid, measuring everything by a recipe in his head. There was only one man he ever gave that recipe to; that was",
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"Cranky, disagreeable, or stubborn, especially if prone to odd whims or fancies."
],
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"Cranky",
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[
"disagreeable",
"disagreeable"
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[
"stubborn",
"stubborn"
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"odd",
"odd"
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"word": "old man yells at cloud"
}
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{
"word": "crochety"
}
],
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kaprizen",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"word": "капризен"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"word": "vrtošivý"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"word": "oikukas"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"word": "äksy"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"word": "launisch"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"word": "quengelig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"word": "knatschig"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"word": "kirikawa"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kapríznyj",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "капри́зный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "svojenrávnyj",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "своенра́вный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prixotlívyj",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "прихотли́вый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vzdórnyj",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "вздо́рный"
}
]
}
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"sounds": [
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"ipa": "/ˈkɹɒtʃ.ə.tɪ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
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"US"
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"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
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"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "crotchetiest",
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"superlative"
]
},
{
"form": "most crotchety",
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"superlative"
]
}
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"ref": "1929, William Faulkner, “JUNE SECOND 1910”, in The Sound and the Fury, Random House, Inc., published ≥1956, page 184",
"text": "and Gerald‘s grandfather always picked his own mint before breakfast, while the dew was still on it. He wouldnt even let old Wilkie touch it do you remember Gerald but always gathered it himself and made his own julep. He was as crochety about his julep as an old maid, measuring everything by a recipe in his head. There was only one man he ever gave that recipe to; that was",
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],
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"Cranky, disagreeable, or stubborn, especially if prone to odd whims or fancies."
],
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"Cranky",
"cranky"
],
[
"disagreeable",
"disagreeable"
],
[
"stubborn",
"stubborn"
],
[
"odd",
"odd"
],
[
"whim",
"whim"
],
[
"fancies",
"fancy"
]
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"sounds": [
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"ipa": "/ˈkɹɒtʃ.ə.tɪ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
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"ipa": "/ˈkɹɑ.t͡ʃɪ.ti/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
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"synonyms": [
{
"word": "crochety"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kaprizen",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"word": "капризен"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"word": "vrtošivý"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"word": "oikukas"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"word": "äksy"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"word": "launisch"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"word": "quengelig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"word": "knatschig"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"word": "kirikawa"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kapríznyj",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "капри́зный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "svojenrávnyj",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "своенра́вный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prixotlívyj",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "прихотли́вый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vzdórnyj",
"sense": "cranky, disagreeable or stubborn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "вздо́рный"
}
],
"word": "crotchety"
}
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