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grumpy + -pants
grumpy pants (plural grumpy pants)
- (countable, informal, sometimes used attributively) A person who is currently in a bad mood or is habitually cranky.
1954, Philip Wylie, The Best of Crunch and Des, Rinehart, page 360:"You fish, pal. Old grumpy-pants doesn't own the ocean!"
2012, Ellie Daines, Lolly Luck[1], Anderson Press Limited, →ISBN:I was worried the supply teacher would be some grumpy-pants who liked sending kids out of the room if they dared to interrupt while they were speaking.
2013, Eve Langlais, B785: Cyborg Romance, self-published, →ISBN, page 74:“Charming, there you are. I've been looking all over for you. Grumpy pants here wouldn't tell me where you went.”
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:grumpy pants.
- (uncountable, informal) A notional pair of pants worn by someone in a bad mood.
2011, C. J. Castano, Forbidden Innocence, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 115:"What is everyone's problem this morning? Did everyone wake up with their grumpy pants on?"
2011, Scott Semegran, The Spectacular Simon Burchwood[2], Sugar Skull Books, →ISBN:"Well, look who put on his grumpy pants today?" Gina said, punching me in the arm. She was really starting to get on my last goddamn nerves.
2013, Edward Viljoen, The Power of Meditation: An Ancient Technique to Access Your Inner Power[3], Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, →ISBN:I notice that when I move through the world at this pace, I tend to do what a friend calls “wearing my grumpy pants.”
