Cascarrabias in english
Curmudgeon
pronunciation: kɜrmʌdʒɪn part of speech: noun
pronunciation: kɜrmʌdʒɪn part of speech: noun
In gestures
cascarrabias = grouchy ; grumpy ; curmudgeon ; curmudgeonly ; cantankerous ; bad-tempered ; crabby ; ornery ; misery guts ; grouch ; sourpuss.
Example: The book 'The Grouchy Ladybug' describes how a ladybug can be used to teach entomology, natural selection, comparative anatomy, food chains and symbiotic relationships.Example: That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.Example: The most common problem suffered by curmudgeons turns out to be their circumscribed social life.Example: Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.Example: To attain this order within the structure of chaos, Eros divided himself into two parts: Eros as amicable, social love and Eros as cantankerous, divisive discord.Example: He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.Example: The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.Example: My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.Example: At the other end of the scale are misery guts, who are neither happy with their job role nor their employer.Example: We all have a grouch in our lives and if we wake up on the wrong side of the bed or take our daily mean pill, at the very nicest, we have been described as a 'grouch'.Example: It is no fun being around you when you are being such a sourpuss.