curmudgeon

Don't pass all the weary Winter with Curmudgeon, who will marry you to an old bag of gold.

Curmudgeon, kur-muj′un, n. an avaricious, ill-natured fellow: a miser.

He only accepted the hospitality of Mr. Long lest he should be accused of being a curmudgeon if he refused.

"Your father is a curmudgeon," declared the old woman, for the more she looked at Gabriel, the more she loved him.

Degas is amiability itself compared with this curmudgeon of genius.