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Grammar : Adj
Spell : kan-tang-ker-uh s
Phonetic Transcription : kænˈtæŋ kər əs

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Définition of cantankerous

Origin :
  • 1772, said to be "a Wiltshire word," probably from an alteration (influenced by raucous) of Middle English contakour "troublemaker" (c.1300), from Anglo-French contec "discord, strife," from Old French contechier (Old North French contekier), from con- "with" + teche, related to atachier "hold fast" (see attach). With -ous. Related: Cantankerously; cantankerousness.
  • adj difficult, crabby
Example sentences :
  • "Well, of all cantankerous cranks he is the worst," he would say with a sigh.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • Don't be cantankerous, and don't be subtle, because I've been bathing.
  • Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
  • They were the most cantankerous, persistent race you can imagine.
  • Extract from : « Be It Ever Thus » by Robert Moore Williams
  • You must have thought me cantankerous, and so I have been sometimes, but always by conviction and on principle.
  • Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
  • It's no wonder he drinks, hitched up to a cantankerous old hyena like that.
  • Extract from : « Quin » by Alice Hegan Rice
  • Ha, there you are, you cantankerous little fabrication of nothings!
  • Extract from : « The Galaxy Primes » by Edward Elmer Smith
  • He was cantankerous at first, and told the clerk to go and be d——d.
  • Extract from : « Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite » by Anthony Trollope
  • You might meet Robert Fenley, and he would certainly be cantankerous.
  • Extract from : « The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley » by Louis Tracy
  • But it's the cantankerous fact, and it simply has to stand to reason.
  • Extract from : « Back Home » by Eugene Wood
  • His disposition divided naturally into two, the boastful and the cantankerous.
  • Extract from : « The Trumpet-Major » by Thomas Hardy

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