CROTCHETY
ADJECTIVES
– crotchety, capricious, contrary, perverse MAGGATIVOUS 1866 Sc.
– crotchety, capricious, contrary, perverse MAGGOTIVE 1866 Sc.
– crotchety, cranky; fussy, finicky, particular, meticulous, precise PERNICKET(T)Y; PERNICKITY 1834 Amer. dial.
– crotchety, cranky; fussy, finicky, particular, meticulous, precise PERSNICKE(R)TY 1905 Amer. dial.
– crotchety, cross in temper; uncertain; eccentric TIDDIE 1899 Sc.
– crotchety, full of whims or fancies, capricious, contrary, perverse MAGGOT(T)Y 1678
– crotchety, full of whims or fancies; whimsical, capricious MAGGATIVE Bk1905 Sc.
– crotchety, full of whims or fancies, whimsical, capricious MAGGOTTING Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– crotchety, full of whims or fancies, whimsical, capricious MAGGOTY-HEADED 1894 Sc.
– crotchety, full of whims or fancies, whimsical, capricious MAGGOTY-MINDED Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– crotchety; full of whims or perverse fancies MAGGOTISH a1700 obs.
– crotchety, fussy, silly; vacillating, undecided TITTY TODDY 1875 Eng. dial.
– crotchety, precise, pettish SANSHACH 1825 Sc.
– crotchety, queer CRANKY Bk1905 Amer. dial.
– full of crotchets or whims; fastidious, fidgety, over-particular FADDY Bk1900 Eng. dial.
NOUNS, PERSON
1660 ► MAGGOT-MONGER a crotcheteer; a whimsical person → obs.
1842 ► OLD WIGSBY a crotchety, narrow-minded, elderly man who snappishly can see no good in any modern thing
1887 ► MAGGOTY-POW a crotchety, whimsical person → Sc.
VERBS
L19 ► HAVE MAGGOTS IN THE HEAD to be crotchety or eccentric → colloq.
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