crosspatch
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of crosspatch
Example Sentences
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He's a youthful crosspatch, a reedy-voiced adolescent with a gripe.
From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2010
Adults may disapprove, but today's young Western Europeans, from 25 on down, represent something new and promising on the crosspatch old face of the Continent.
From Time Magazine Archive
And yet one feels guilty, something of a crosspatch, for raising even a minor caveat about this engaging, low-key, low-budget movie, full of nice people, bouncy car chases, vroomy racing sequences.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both dialogue and action are thus resolved into a prolonged contest between the stallion snorts of Actor Beery and the crosspatch snuffles of Actor Barrymore.
From Time Magazine Archive
“There! She promised I should go next time, for this is the last ice we shall have. But it’s no use to ask such a crosspatch to take me.”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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