grouty
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of grouty
1825–35; grout to grumble, sulk, of uncertain origin ( cf. grouse 2, grouch) + -y 1
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"Well, Frank, how's Nell Gwyn, this morning?" cheerily cried Laura to Frank, who seemed to be getting his harness into a worse snarl, in his grouty attempts to get it out of one.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various
Mr. Hamblin was too grouty to permit any such familiarity, and doubtless he was saved from exposing his ignorance of the interesting country which the voyagers had now entered.
From Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim by Oliver Optic
My whole attitude toward current literature is grouty and snappish, a kind of perpetual interrupted “What are you ringing my door-bell now for?” attitude.
From The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee
The fellows in the consort say he is as grouty as a mud turtle, and as crabbed as an owl at noonday.
From Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim by Oliver Optic
If not of sufficient stiffness, it falls to pieces, and makes soup, &c. grouty and very unsightly.
From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by William Kitchiner
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