A bad-tempered person.

synonyms: churl, crank, grouch, grump.

Roget 895: discourtesy; ill breeding; ill manners, bad manners, ungainly manners; insuavity^†; uncourteousness^†, etc. adj.; rusticity, inurbanity^†; illiberality, incivility displacency^†.    disrespect etc. 929; procacity^†, impudence: barbarism, barbarity; misbehavior, brutality, blackguardism^†, conduct unbecoming a gentleman, grossieret_e, brusquerie^†; vulgarity, etc. 851.    churlishness etc. adj.; spinosity^†, perversity; moroseness etc. (sullenness) 901.1. sternness etc. adj.; austerity; moodishness^†, captiousness etc. 901; cynicism; tartness etc. adj.; acrimony, acerbity, virulence, asperity.    scowl, black looks, frown; short answer, rebuff; hard words, contumely; unparliamentary language, personality.    bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast; unlicked cub^†; frump, crosspatch^†; saucebox etc. 887^†; crooked stick; grizzly.    ... show more

Dutch: nurk, druiloor, grompot, zuurpruim, nijdas, brombeer, brompot, iezegrim, kankeraar, knorrepot, mopperaar, mopperkont, neetoor ... show more
Polish: gburek