Associations to the word «Curmudgeon»

Wiktionary

CURMUDGEON, noun. (archaic) A miser.
CURMUDGEON, noun. An ill-tempered (and frequently old) person full of stubborn ideas or opinions.

Dictionary definition

CURMUDGEON, noun. A crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne