Definitions for Grouchy

Grouchy grouch·y

Spelling: [grou-chee]
IPA: /ˈgraʊ tʃi/

Grouchy is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in Grouchy (cghoruy).

Definitions for Grouchy

noun

  1. Emmanuel [e-ma-ny-el] /ɛ ma nüˈɛl/ (Show IPA), Marquis de, 1766–1847, French general.

adjective

  1. sullenly discontented; sulky; morose; ill-tempered.

Origin of Grouchy

An Americanism dating back to 1890-95; grouch + -y1

Examples for Grouchy

The boys waved their hands in farewell to the grouchy sentry.

Dream: I apply for information to a grouchy clerk who refuses to impart it to me.

grouchy—a quarter of his forces—was cut off from him altogether.

"I don't play to the grandstand," growled the grouchy pitcher.

He heard far off a cannonade which might be that of grouchy.

Well, I was that grouchy I wouldn't look at myself in the glass.

Had grouchy done so, Waterloo would not have been the crushing defeat it was for Napoleon.

But ask them of somebody other than his grouchy eight-year-old bodyguard.

It is said that he waited for grouchy to join him before the close of the action.

Despite his grouchy humor he smiled at his acute attack of virtue.

Word Value for Grouchy
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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