curmudgeonhood
English edit
Etymology edit
From curmudgeon + -hood.
Noun edit
curmudgeonhood (uncountable)
- The status of being a curmudgeon
- 1978 Jan-Jun, Dick Rath, “Odd Lot”, in Boating:
- True, he's a little young for full curmudgeonhood, but he's been working tirelessly at it for years, and he takes a gadfly's delight in pointing out that this or that emperor has no clothes.