"curmudgeon" meaning in Anglais

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Noun

IPA: \kɚˈmʌdʒən\, \kɜː(ɹ)ˈmʌdʒ.ən\, kɚˈmʌdʒən Audio: En-us-curmudgeon.ogg , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-curmudgeon.wav Forms: curmudgeons [plural]
  1. Une personne bourrue, têtue, de mauvaise humeur, souvent en association au cynisme et au vieil âge.
    Sense id: fr-curmudgeon-en-noun-dWTR6PT3 Categories (other): Exemples en anglais, Exemples en anglais à traduire
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

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