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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being crotchety; the character of a crotcheteer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state or character of being crotchety, or whimsical.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The state or quality of being crotchety.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a fussy and eccentric disposition

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