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Grouty  adj.  Cross; sulky; sullen. (Colloq.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Grouty" Quotes from Famous Books



... still, father," returned Charlotte, with steady fierceness. "I've never set myself up against you in my whole life before; but now I'm going to, because it's just and right. Father wanted to pick a quarrel," she repeated, turning to Deborah; "he's been kind of grouty to Barney for some time. I don't know why; he took a notion to, I suppose. When they got to having words about the 'lection, father begun it. I heard him. Barney answered back, and I didn't blame him; I would, in his ...
— Pembroke - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... course of Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier, together with her celebrated Liver Pills, will purify the blood and drive off the bile, making you happy and pleasant, instead of grouty and disagreeable. ...
— Treatise on the Diseases of Women • Lydia E. Pinkham

... sulks, bouderie [Fr.], black looks, scowl; grouch; huff &c (resentment) 900. V. be sullen &c adj.; sulk; frown, scowl, lower, glower, gloam^, pout, have a hangdog look, glout^. Adj. sullen, sulky; ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill- disposed; grouty [U.S.]; in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor; out of temper, out of humor; knaggy^, torvous^, crusty, crabbed; sour, sour as a crab; surly &c (discourteous) 895. moody; spleenish^, spleenly^; splenetic, cankered. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... don't be grouty, Hannah. We've got through the wust of it, and if you ain't satisfied, why, we'll go back to Plymouth again. I can stand it awhile, I guess, if 't is four ...
— A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... bashful swains were allowed to clasp hands with their sweethearts, which led to many lifelong hand and heart clasps in this good old-fashioned town where there were no despairing old maids nor lone, lorn, grouty unmated men. ...
— The Gentleman from Everywhere • James Henry Foss



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