grumpy pants
nounEtymology From grumpy + -pants.
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Informal, Sometimes Synonym of grump (“person who is currently in a bad mood or is habitually cranky”).
- Near-synonym: bitchy-pants
- "You fish, pal. Old grumpy-pants doesn't own the ocean!"1954, Philip Wylie, The Best of Crunch and Des, Rinehart, page 360:
2 more examples
- 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.2012, Ellie Daines, Lolly Luck, Anderson Press Limited, →ISBN:
- “Charming, there you are. I've been looking all over for you. Grumpy pants here wouldn't tell me where you went.”2013, Eve Langlais, B785: Cyborg Romance, self-published, →ISBN, page 74:
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Informal A notional pair of pants worn by someone in a bad mood.
- Near-synonym: bitchy pants
- We asked him to take off his grumpy pants and put on his big-boy pants.
3 more examples
- "What is everyone's problem this morning? Did everyone wake up with their grumpy pants on?"2011, C. J. Castano, Forbidden Innocence, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 115:
- "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.2011, Scott Semegran, The Spectacular Simon Burchwood, Sugar Skull Books, →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.”2013, Edward Viljoen, The Power of Meditation: An Ancient Technique to Access Your Inner Power, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, →ISBN: