grumpy, old

grumpy, old
   An intimacy used in Room at the Top, by John Braine. It represents an ad hoc conversion of the word ‘grumpy’ rather than a use of Disney’s dwarf-name.

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  • Grumpy Old Women — Infobox Television show name = Grumpy Old Women caption = Grumpy Old Women Title Card format = Comedy Reality runtime = 28 Minutes creator = Judith Holder executive producer = Judith Holder starring = Jenny Eclair Sheila Hancock Jane Moore… …   Wikipedia

  • Grumpy Old Men (TV series) — Infobox Television show name = Grumpy Old Men caption = show name 2 = genre = Conversational, Comedy Reality creator = director = creative director = developer = presenter = starring = voices = narrated = Geoffrey Palmer theme music composer =… …   Wikipedia

  • Grumpy old men — Filmdaten Deutscher Titel: Ein verrücktes Paar – Alt verkracht und frisch verliebt Originaltitel: Grumpy Old Men Produktionsland: USA Erscheinungsjahr: 1993 Länge: 103 Minuten Originalsprache: Engl …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Grumpy Old Men (film) — Infobox Film name = Grumpy Old Men caption = director = Donald Petrie producer = John Davis writer = Mark Steven Johnson starring = Jack Lemmon Walter Matthau Ann Margaret Burgess Meredith Daryl Hannah Kevin Pollak music = Alan Silvestri… …   Wikipedia

  • The Grumpy Old Bookman — is a litblog started by Michael Allen in late March 2004. A number of the essays and reviews posted there have been collected in his 2005 book, Grumpy Old Bookman . The Grumpy Old Bookman is aimed at both readers and writers, and the content… …   Wikipedia

  • Grumpy — may refer to:* Grumpy Old Men (film) * Grumpier Old Men * Grumpy Old Men (TV series) * Grumpy Old Women * The Grumpy Old Bookman * Mr. Grumpy * Grumpy Justins * Grumpy Groundhog, a planned Ubuntu permanently unstable version.ee also* Irritable… …   Wikipedia

  • grumpy — [[t]grʌ̱mpi[/t]] grumpier, grumpiest ADJ GRADED If you say that someone is grumpy, you mean that they are bad tempered and miserable. Some folk think I m a grumpy old man. Derived words: grumpily ADV GRADED ADV with v I know, I know, said Ken,… …   English dictionary

  • grumpy — adjective Matthau s grumpy old man was a tour de force Syn: bad tempered, crabby, ill tempered, short tempered, crotchety, tetchy, testy, waspish, prickly, touchy, irritable, irascible, crusty, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, bearish, surly, ill… …   Thesaurus of popular words

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