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ugliest

  • 1 feo

    adj.
    1 ugly, homely, bad-looking, ill-favored.
    2 ugly.
    * * *
    2 (aspecto, situación, tiempo, etc) nasty, horrible, unpleasant, awful
    3 (acción) horrible, awful
    4 (indigno) rude, not nice, improper
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 ugly person
    1 (ofensa) slight, snub
    \
    hacerle un feo a alguien to slight somebody, snub somebody
    ser más feo que Picio to be as ugly as sin
    siempre me (te, etc) toca bailar con la más fea I (you, etc) always get the short end of the stick
    ————————
    1 (ofensa) slight, snub
    * * *
    = fea, adj.
    1) ugly
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) (=sin belleza) [persona, casa, ropa] ugly

    bailar con la más fea —

    2) (=desagradable) [asunto, tiempo] nasty, unpleasant; [jugada] dirty
    3) (=de mala educación)

    está muy feo contestarle así a tu madre — it's very rude o it's not nice to answer your mother like that

    está o queda feo comerse las uñas en público — it's bad manners to bite your nails in public

    4) LAm [olor, comida] nasty, unpleasant
    2. SM
    1) (=desaire)

    -no puedo ir a tu boda -¿me vas a hacer ese feo? — "I can't come to your wedding" - "but you can't refuse!" o "how can you refuse!"

    2) * (=fealdad)

    hoy está con el feo o de feo subido — he's looking really ugly today

    3.
    ADV LAm * bad, badly

    oler feo — to smell bad, have a nasty smell

    * * *
    I
    fea adjetivo
    a) <persona/edificio> ugly; < peinado> unflattering

    es un barrio/color feo — it's not a very nice neighborhood/color

    ser más feo que Picio or que un pecado — to be as ugly as sin (colloq)

    b) <asunto/situación> unpleasant; <olor/sabor> (esp AmL) unpleasant

    es or (Esp) está muy feo hablar así — it's not nice to talk like that

    II
    adverbio (AmL) <oler/saber> bad

    sentir feo — (Méx) to feel terrible

    III
    masculino (fam) ( desaire)

    vamos, acéptalo, no me hagas ese feo — oh go on take it, I'll be hurt if you don't

    es de un feo... — (Esp) he's as ugly as they come (colloq)

    * * *
    = ugly [uglier -comp., ugliest -sup.], unsightly, nasty [natier -comp., nastiest -sup.], unlovely, minging, nasty looking, shanky [shankier -comp., shankiest -sup.].
    Ex. This is not to say that the library should be cluttered with ugly signs; all notices should be carefully contrived and aesthetically pleasing.
    Ex. He went on to explain that while there were no unsightly slums, there was a fairly large district of rather nondescript homes intermingled with plain two- and three-family brick and frame dwellings, principally in the eastern reaches of the city.
    Ex. Anthony Datto thanked them for having permitted him to unburden himself and after a few desultory remarks about the nasty weather and nothing in particular, they parted.
    Ex. The article 'Lovely idea, but unlovely pricing' criticizes the pricing level of a new service aimed at research scientists in the pharmaceutical, chemical, and biotechnology companies.
    Ex. Everyone is attractive to someone, there is no such thing as a minger, but there are many people who I think are minging.
    Ex. It's more advisable to have a cheap and skanky bike for pootling around town, the idea being that no-one would want to nick a nasty looking bike.
    Ex. It's more advisable to have a cheap and skanky bike for pootling around town, the idea being that no-one would want to nick a nasty looking bike.
    ----
    * cosas + ponerse feas = things + get rough.
    * grotescamente feo = grotesquely ugly.
    * patito feo = ugly duckling.
    * Patito Feo, el = Ugly Duckling, the.
    * vieja fea = old hag, old bag, old crone, old bat.
    * * *
    I
    fea adjetivo
    a) <persona/edificio> ugly; < peinado> unflattering

    es un barrio/color feo — it's not a very nice neighborhood/color

    ser más feo que Picio or que un pecado — to be as ugly as sin (colloq)

    b) <asunto/situación> unpleasant; <olor/sabor> (esp AmL) unpleasant

    es or (Esp) está muy feo hablar así — it's not nice to talk like that

    II
    adverbio (AmL) <oler/saber> bad

    sentir feo — (Méx) to feel terrible

    III
    masculino (fam) ( desaire)

    vamos, acéptalo, no me hagas ese feo — oh go on take it, I'll be hurt if you don't

    es de un feo... — (Esp) he's as ugly as they come (colloq)

    * * *
    = ugly [uglier -comp., ugliest -sup.], unsightly, nasty [natier -comp., nastiest -sup.], unlovely, minging, nasty looking, shanky [shankier -comp., shankiest -sup.].

    Ex: This is not to say that the library should be cluttered with ugly signs; all notices should be carefully contrived and aesthetically pleasing.

    Ex: He went on to explain that while there were no unsightly slums, there was a fairly large district of rather nondescript homes intermingled with plain two- and three-family brick and frame dwellings, principally in the eastern reaches of the city.
    Ex: Anthony Datto thanked them for having permitted him to unburden himself and after a few desultory remarks about the nasty weather and nothing in particular, they parted.
    Ex: The article 'Lovely idea, but unlovely pricing' criticizes the pricing level of a new service aimed at research scientists in the pharmaceutical, chemical, and biotechnology companies.
    Ex: Everyone is attractive to someone, there is no such thing as a minger, but there are many people who I think are minging.
    Ex: It's more advisable to have a cheap and skanky bike for pootling around town, the idea being that no-one would want to nick a nasty looking bike.
    Ex: It's more advisable to have a cheap and skanky bike for pootling around town, the idea being that no-one would want to nick a nasty looking bike.
    * cosas + ponerse feas = things + get rough.
    * grotescamente feo = grotesquely ugly.
    * patito feo = ugly duckling.
    * Patito Feo, el = Ugly Duckling, the.
    * vieja fea = old hag, old bag, old crone, old bat.

    * * *
    1 ‹persona/animal/edificio› ugly; ‹peinado› unflattering
    es fea de cara she's not at all pretty, she has a very plain face
    es feo con ganas he's as ugly as sin ( colloq)
    la pobre chica es feíta or feúcha the poor girl is rather plain o ( AmE colloq) homely
    es un barrio feo it's not a very nice neighborhood
    es un color bastante feo it isn't a very attractive o nice color
    llevaba una corbata feísima he was wearing the most awful tie
    ser más feo que Picio or que un pecado or que pegarle a Dios or que pegarle a la madre ( fam); to be as ugly as sin ( colloq)
    siempre me toca bailar con la más fea ( fam); I always get the short end of the stick o draw the short straw ( colloq)
    2 ‹asunto/situación› unpleasant; ‹olor/sabor› ( esp AmL) unpleasant
    ¡qué feo está el día! ( AmL); what an awful day!
    me has dado cartas muy feas you've dealt me horrible cards
    la cosa se está poniendo fea, vámonos things are getting nasty o ugly o this is getting unpleasant, let's go
    es or ( Esp) está muy feo hablar así de los amigos it's not nice to talk about your friends like that
    tiene la fea costumbre de contestar he has an unpleasant habit of answering back
    feo2
    ( AmL) ‹oler/saber› bad
    me miró feo she gave me a dirty look
    sentir feo ( Méx); to feel terrible
    se siente feo que te traten así it's really terrible to be treated like that
    feo3
    ( fam)
    1
    (desaire): hacerle un feo a algn to snub sb
    2 ( fam)
    (fealdad): es encantador, pero es de un feo … he's charming, but boy, is he (ever) ugly! ( AmE), he's charming but he isn't half ugly! ( BrE colloq)
    es de un feo que asusta he's as ugly as sin o as ugly as they come ( colloq)
    * * *

     

    feo 1,
    ◊ fea adjetivo

    a) ‹persona/edificio› ugly;

    ‹ peinado› unflattering;

    es un barrio feo it's not a very nice neighborhood
    b) ‹asunto/situación› unpleasant;

    ‹olor/sabor› (esp AmL) unpleasant;
    ◊ ¡qué feo está el día! what an awful day!;

    la cosa se está poniendo fea things are getting nasty o ugly;
    es or (Esp) está muy feo hablar así it's not nice to talk like that
    feo 2 adverbio (AmL) ‹oler/saber› bad;

    feo,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 (carente de belleza) ugly
    2 (turbio) nasty: esto se pone feo, this is looking bad
    una herida fea, a bad wound
    II m (desaire, descortesía) snub: no le hagas ese feo, don't snub him
    ♦ Locuciones: ser más feo que Picio, to be as ugly as sin

    ' feo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    espantosa
    - espantoso
    - esperpento
    - fea
    - horrorosa
    - horroroso
    - monstruosa
    - monstruoso
    - encima
    - espantar
    - feroz
    - gana
    - horrible
    English:
    hideous
    - nasty
    - ugly
    - ugly duckling
    - unsightly
    - dull
    - homely
    - nice
    - plain
    * * *
    feo, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [persona, animal, traje] ugly;
    es un pueblo muy feo it's a very ugly town;
    es fea con ganas she's as ugly as sin;
    ser más feo que Picio to be as ugly as sin;
    Fam
    2. [aspecto, herida] nasty;
    [tiempo] foul, horrible; [color] unpleasant;
    está metido en un asunto muy feo he's mixed up in some really nasty business;
    ponerse feo [situación, tiempo] to turn nasty;
    la cosa está fea things are looking bad
    3. [desagradable] unpleasant;
    [ofensivo] rude;
    es o [m5] está feo escupir it's rude to spit;
    cuando me vio me hizo un gesto feo when she saw me she made a rude gesture;
    lo que hiciste quedó feo that wasn't a very nice thing to do
    4. Am [olor, sabor] unpleasant
    ♦ nm,f
    [persona] ugly person; Fam
    le tocó bailar con la más fea he drew the short straw
    ♦ nm
    [desaire]
    hacer un feo a alguien to offend o slight sb;
    le hizo el feo de no saludarla he snubbed her by not saying hello
    ♦ adv
    Am [oler, saber] bad;
    tus zapatos huelen muy feo your shoes smell awful
    * * *
    I adj ugly; fig
    nasty;
    la(s) cosa(s) se pone(n) feo(s) fig things are looking grim
    II m
    :
    hacer un feo a alguien fam snub s.o.
    III adv Méx
    oler, saber bad
    * * *
    feo adv
    : badly, bad
    feo, fea adj
    1) : ugly
    2) : unpleasant, nasty
    * * *
    feo adj
    1. (en general) ugly [comp. uglier; superl. ugliest]
    2. (malo) unpleasant / nasty [comp. nastier; superl. nastiest]

    Spanish-English dictionary > feo

  • 2 cascarrabias

    adj.
    crabby, crotchety.
    m.&f. s&pl.
    1 grouch, misery guts.
    2 crabby person, bad-tempered person, grouch, grumpy person.
    * * *
    1 familiar grumpy person, bad-tempered person
    * * *
    SMF INV grouch *
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo invariable (fam) cantankerous, grumpy
    II
    masculino y femenino (pl cascarrabias) (fam) cantankerous o grumpy person
    * * *
    = grouchy [grouchier -comp., grouchiest -sup.], grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, cantankerous, bad-tempered, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], ornery, misery guts, grouch, sour puss.
    Ex. The book 'The Grouchy Ladybug' describes how a ladybug can be used to teach entomology, natural selection, comparative anatomy, food chains and symbiotic relationships.
    Ex. That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.
    Ex. The most common problem suffered by curmudgeons turns out to be their circumscribed social life.
    Ex. Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex. To attain this order within the structure of chaos, Eros divided himself into two parts: Eros as amicable, social love and Eros as cantankerous, divisive discord.
    Ex. He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.
    Ex. The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex. My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex. At the other end of the scale are misery guts, who are neither happy with their job role nor their employer.
    Ex. We all have a grouch in our lives and if we wake up on the wrong side of the bed or take our daily mean pill, at the very nicest, we have been described as a ' grouch'.
    Ex. It is no fun being around you when you are being such a sour puss.
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo invariable (fam) cantankerous, grumpy
    II
    masculino y femenino (pl cascarrabias) (fam) cantankerous o grumpy person
    * * *
    = grouchy [grouchier -comp., grouchiest -sup.], grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, cantankerous, bad-tempered, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], ornery, misery guts, grouch, sour puss.

    Ex: The book 'The Grouchy Ladybug' describes how a ladybug can be used to teach entomology, natural selection, comparative anatomy, food chains and symbiotic relationships.

    Ex: That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.
    Ex: The most common problem suffered by curmudgeons turns out to be their circumscribed social life.
    Ex: Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex: To attain this order within the structure of chaos, Eros divided himself into two parts: Eros as amicable, social love and Eros as cantankerous, divisive discord.
    Ex: He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.
    Ex: The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex: My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex: At the other end of the scale are misery guts, who are neither happy with their job role nor their employer.
    Ex: We all have a grouch in our lives and if we wake up on the wrong side of the bed or take our daily mean pill, at the very nicest, we have been described as a ' grouch'.
    Ex: It is no fun being around you when you are being such a sour puss.

    * * *
    ( fam); cantankerous, grumpy
    cantankerous o grumpy person
    es un viejo cascarrabias he's a cantankerous old devil ( o sod etc) ( colloq)
    * * *

    cascarrabias adjetivo invariable (fam) cantankerous, grumpy
    ■ sustantivo masculino y femenino (pl
    ◊ cascarrabias) grouch (colloq)

    cascarrabias
    I mf inv familiar bad-tempered person
    familiar misery
    II adjetivo grumpy: no seas cascarrabias, don't be such a misery guts o don't be such a stick in the mud

    ' cascarrabias' also found in these entries:
    English:
    grouch
    - irascible
    - crank
    * * *
    ♦ adj inv
    grouchy, cranky;
    un viejo cascarrabias an old grouch, Br an old misery-guts
    ♦ nmf inv
    grouch, Br misery-guts,
    * * *
    m/f inv fam
    grouch fam
    * * *
    cascarrabias nmfs & pl, fam : grouch, crab

    Spanish-English dictionary > cascarrabias

  • 3 colarse

    1 (escabullirse) to slip in, gatecrash
    2 (en una cola) to push in, jump the queue, US jump the line
    3 familiar (equivocarse) to slip up, make a mistake
    4 (enamorarse) to fall ( por, for)
    * * *
    VPR
    1) (=filtrarse)
    2) [personas] [sin pagar] to get in without paying; [en lugar prohibido] to sneak in; [en fiesta] to gatecrash
    3) [error]
    4) [en una cola] to jump the queue, cut in line (EEUU)

    ¡oiga, no se cuele! — excuse me, there's a queue!

    5) Esp * (=equivocarse) to get it wrong *

    ¡huy! ¡me colé! — oops! I got it wrong! *

    ahí te has colado porque yo no dije nada de eso — you got it wrong there, because I didn't say anything about that

    6) Esp (=enamorarse)
    * * *
    = creep + past, sneak + past, sneak through, slither + Posesivo + way into, seep, creep (up) (in/into), sneak, weasel + Posesivo + way into, sneak into, worm + Posesivo + way through.
    Ex. Too frequently absurd errors creep past the abstractor who does not know the field.
    Ex. The more expensive media such as kits, models, and games are too large for someone to sneak past a vigilant charge out system = Los conjuntos documentales multimedia, las maquetas y los juegos son demasiado grandes para que alguien los pase sin ser visto por el sistema de préstamo.
    Ex. I think I am probably 99.9% effective at catching these spams but this was one of the.1% that snuck through.
    Ex. That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.
    Ex. The outer edges of the sheet -- the deckle edges -- are rough and uneven where the stuff seeped between the deckle and the mould.
    Ex. Abstracting may not always be accorded a high priority by volunteer abstractors and undesirable delays may creep into the preparation of abstracts.
    Ex. With a no fine policy there'll no longer be a need for patrons to sneak books back on the shelves after they're due and then pretend they were there all the time = Sin una política de sanciones los usuarios ya no tendrán la necesidad de devolver los libros a los estantes sin ser vistos después de haber vencido su préstamo y luego fingir que estaban allí desde hace tiempo.
    Ex. He then rented a hidden camera and weaseled his way into the private ceremony to take a shot of the singer.
    Ex. The police said that he had sneaked into a her house and raped her nearly 200 times over a 13-month period.
    Ex. Corruption wormed its way through their ranks, as it did through the ranks of their kinfolk.
    ----
    * colarse en = slip into.
    * colarse inadvertidamente = slip through.
    * * *
    = creep + past, sneak + past, sneak through, slither + Posesivo + way into, seep, creep (up) (in/into), sneak, weasel + Posesivo + way into, sneak into, worm + Posesivo + way through.

    Ex: Too frequently absurd errors creep past the abstractor who does not know the field.

    Ex: The more expensive media such as kits, models, and games are too large for someone to sneak past a vigilant charge out system = Los conjuntos documentales multimedia, las maquetas y los juegos son demasiado grandes para que alguien los pase sin ser visto por el sistema de préstamo.
    Ex: I think I am probably 99.9% effective at catching these spams but this was one of the.1% that snuck through.
    Ex: That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.
    Ex: The outer edges of the sheet -- the deckle edges -- are rough and uneven where the stuff seeped between the deckle and the mould.
    Ex: Abstracting may not always be accorded a high priority by volunteer abstractors and undesirable delays may creep into the preparation of abstracts.
    Ex: With a no fine policy there'll no longer be a need for patrons to sneak books back on the shelves after they're due and then pretend they were there all the time = Sin una política de sanciones los usuarios ya no tendrán la necesidad de devolver los libros a los estantes sin ser vistos después de haber vencido su préstamo y luego fingir que estaban allí desde hace tiempo.
    Ex: He then rented a hidden camera and weaseled his way into the private ceremony to take a shot of the singer.
    Ex: The police said that he had sneaked into a her house and raped her nearly 200 times over a 13-month period.
    Ex: Corruption wormed its way through their ranks, as it did through the ranks of their kinfolk.
    * colarse en = slip into.
    * colarse inadvertidamente = slip through.

    * * *

    ■colarse verbo reflexivo
    1 (entrar sin ser visto) to slip in
    (sin ser invitado) to gatecrash
    (sin pagar) se coló en el autobús, he got onto the bus without paying
    2 (saltarse el turno) to jump the queue, US to cut in the line
    3 fam (meter la pata) to slip up, go too far
    ' colarse' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    colar
    English:
    cut in
    - gatecrash
    - jump
    - push in
    - queue
    - thread
    - worm
    - crash
    - gate
    - line
    - push
    * * *
    vpr
    1. [líquido, gas]
    colarse por to seep through;
    el aire se cuela por esta rendija air passes through this crack;
    las llaves se colaron por la alcantarilla the keys dropped down the drain;
    el balón se coló por la portería sin que ningún jugador pudiera detenerlo the ball just slipped into the goal and no one could stop it
    2. [en cola] to Br jump the queue o US cut in line;
    ¡eh, no te cueles! Br oi, don't jump the queue!, US hey, don't cut in line!
    3. [en sitio] to slip, to sneak (en into);
    se colaron en el tren they slipped o sneaked onto the train without paying;
    colarse en una fiesta to gatecrash a party;
    nos colamos por la puerta de atrás we sneaked in (by) the back door
    4. Fam [equivocarse] to slip up;
    te has colado, no es mi hermana you've got it wrong, she's not my sister
    5. Fam [enamorarse]
    colarse por alguien to fall for sb
    * * *
    v/r fam
    1 en un lugar get in
    2 en una fiesta gatecrash; en una cola cut in line, Br
    push in
    3
    :
    colarse por alguien fam fall for s.o.
    * * *
    vr
    1) : to sneak in, to cut in line, to gate-crash
    2) : to slip up, to make a mistake
    * * *
    1. (meterse en un lugar) to sneak in
    se coló en el concierto he sneaked into the concert / he got into the concert without paying
    2. (meterse en una cola) to push in
    3. (equivocarse en general) to slip up / to be wrong
    4. (equivocarse hablando) to put your foot in it
    te has colado, no debías decirle eso you've put your foot in it you shouldn't have said that

    Spanish-English dictionary > colarse

  • 4 de mal genio

    (adj.) = bad-tempered, grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], curmudgeonly, crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], irascible, shrewish, short-tempered, ill-natured
    Ex. He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.
    Ex. That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.
    Ex. Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex. For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex. He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex. He was a shiftless, good-for-nothing man and his shrewish wife was constantly importuning him.
    Ex. A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex. Always snivelling, coughing, spitting; a stupid, tedious, ill-natured fellow, who was for ever fatiguing people.
    * * *
    (adj.) = bad-tempered, grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], curmudgeonly, crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], irascible, shrewish, short-tempered, ill-natured

    Ex: He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.

    Ex: That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.
    Ex: Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex: For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex: He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex: He was a shiftless, good-for-nothing man and his shrewish wife was constantly importuning him.
    Ex: A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex: Always snivelling, coughing, spitting; a stupid, tedious, ill-natured fellow, who was for ever fatiguing people.

    Spanish-English dictionary > de mal genio

  • 5 gruñón

    adj.
    grumpy, cranky, grouchy, gruff.
    m.
    grouch, grumbler, grump, snarler.
    * * *
    1 grumbling, grumpy
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 grumbler, grouch
    * * *
    gruñón, -ona
    1.
    ADJ grumpy, grumbling
    2.
    SM / F grumbler
    * * *
    I
    - ñona adjetivo (fam) grumpy (colloq)
    II
    - ñona masculino, femenino (fam) grump (colloq), grouse (colloq)
    * * *
    = grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], cranky [crankier -comp., crankiest -sup.], curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, cantankerous, bad-tempered, crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], ornery, misery guts, grouch, sour puss, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].
    Ex. That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.
    Ex. For example, you already know that living in a windowless room will make you cranky and out of sorts.
    Ex. The most common problem suffered by curmudgeons turns out to be their circumscribed social life.
    Ex. Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex. To attain this order within the structure of chaos, Eros divided himself into two parts: Eros as amicable, social love and Eros as cantankerous, divisive discord.
    Ex. He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.
    Ex. For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex. He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex. The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex. My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex. At the other end of the scale are misery guts, who are neither happy with their job role nor their employer.
    Ex. We all have a grouch in our lives and if we wake up on the wrong side of the bed or take our daily mean pill, at the very nicest, we have been described as a ' grouch'.
    Ex. It is no fun being around you when you are being such a sour puss.
    Ex. We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.
    ----
    * vieja gruñona = grumpy old woman.
    * viejo gruñón = grumpy old man, grumpy old sod.
    * * *
    I
    - ñona adjetivo (fam) grumpy (colloq)
    II
    - ñona masculino, femenino (fam) grump (colloq), grouse (colloq)
    * * *
    = grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], cranky [crankier -comp., crankiest -sup.], curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, cantankerous, bad-tempered, crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], irascible, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], ornery, misery guts, grouch, sour puss, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].

    Ex: That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.

    Ex: For example, you already know that living in a windowless room will make you cranky and out of sorts.
    Ex: The most common problem suffered by curmudgeons turns out to be their circumscribed social life.
    Ex: Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex: To attain this order within the structure of chaos, Eros divided himself into two parts: Eros as amicable, social love and Eros as cantankerous, divisive discord.
    Ex: He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.
    Ex: For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex: He was a rag-and-bone man living with his irascible father in a junkyard with only their horse for company.
    Ex: The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex: My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex: At the other end of the scale are misery guts, who are neither happy with their job role nor their employer.
    Ex: We all have a grouch in our lives and if we wake up on the wrong side of the bed or take our daily mean pill, at the very nicest, we have been described as a ' grouch'.
    Ex: It is no fun being around you when you are being such a sour puss.
    Ex: We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.
    * vieja gruñona = grumpy old woman.
    * viejo gruñón = grumpy old man, grumpy old sod.

    * * *
    ( fam); grumpy ( colloq)
    masculine, feminine
    ( fam); grump ( colloq), grouch ( colloq), misery ( BrE colloq), moaner ( BrE colloq)
    * * *

    gruñón
    ◊ - ñona adjetivo (fam) grumpy (colloq)

    gruñón,-ona adjetivo grumpy

    ' gruñón' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    gruñona
    English:
    grouch
    - grouchy
    - grump
    - grumpy
    - nag
    - nagging
    * * *
    gruñón, -ona Fam
    ♦ adj
    grumpy
    ♦ nm,f
    old grump
    * * *
    I adj fam
    grumpy
    II m, gruñona f fam
    grouch fam
    * * *
    gruñón, - ñona adj, mpl gruñones fam : grumpy, crabby
    gruñón, - ñona n, mpl gruñones fam : grumpy person, nag
    * * *
    gruñón1 adj grumpy [comp. grumpier; superl. grumpiest]
    gruñón2 n moaner

    Spanish-English dictionary > gruñón

  • 6 malhumorado

    adj.
    bad-humored, cranky, bad-tempered, crabbed.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: malhumorar.
    * * *
    1 bad-tempered
    \
    estar malhumorado,-a to be in a bad mood
    * * *
    (f. - malhumorada)
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ bad-tempered, grumpy
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    a) [SER] <persona/gesto> bad-tempered
    b) [ESTAR] < persona> in a bad mood
    * * *
    = sullen, surly [surlier -comp., surliest -sup.], crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], truculent, peevish, morose, grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], ill-humoured [ill-humored, -USA], cranky [crankier -comp., crankiest -sup.], moody [moodier -comp., moodiest -sup.], curmudgeonly, cantankerous, bad-tempered, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], short-tempered, hipped, ornery, mardy [mardier -comp., mardiest -sup.], grouch, in a grouch.
    Ex. He makes his feelings abundantly clear by sullen silences and glances that indicate complete disgust.
    Ex. He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.
    Ex. For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex. Senior staff members said that these fevers of truculent behavior had manifested themselves only within the past two or three years.
    Ex. In 1912 a group of women library students were accused of lacking a sense of proportion, being peevish and being absorbed in small details.
    Ex. His limber writing consequentializes the inconsequential, and there is not one morose moment in his work, no hint of sourness.
    Ex. That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.
    Ex. The presence of this irony in ill-humored short articles from various journalistic sources is described.
    Ex. For example, you already know that living in a windowless room will make you cranky and out of sorts.
    Ex. Moody explorations of unexplained phenomenon can also be found = También se pueden encontrar exploraciones taciturnas de fenómenos inexplicables.
    Ex. Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex. To attain this order within the structure of chaos, Eros divided himself into two parts: Eros as amicable, social love and Eros as cantankerous, divisive discord.
    Ex. He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.
    Ex. The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex. A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex. His in danger of becoming hipped, a prey to his own doubts and fears, and unable to accomplish anything in life beyond catering to his own morbid fancies.
    Ex. My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex. They were be very mardy about it, but they accepted it, because if they hadn't their course grade would have suffered.
    Ex. We all have a grouch in our lives and if we wake up on the wrong side of the bed or take our daily mean pill, at the very nicest, we have been described as a ' grouch'.
    Ex. Life is too short to be in a grouch all the time.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    a) [SER] <persona/gesto> bad-tempered
    b) [ESTAR] < persona> in a bad mood
    * * *
    = sullen, surly [surlier -comp., surliest -sup.], crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], truculent, peevish, morose, grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], ill-humoured [ill-humored, -USA], cranky [crankier -comp., crankiest -sup.], moody [moodier -comp., moodiest -sup.], curmudgeonly, cantankerous, bad-tempered, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], short-tempered, hipped, ornery, mardy [mardier -comp., mardiest -sup.], grouch, in a grouch.

    Ex: He makes his feelings abundantly clear by sullen silences and glances that indicate complete disgust.

    Ex: He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.
    Ex: For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex: Senior staff members said that these fevers of truculent behavior had manifested themselves only within the past two or three years.
    Ex: In 1912 a group of women library students were accused of lacking a sense of proportion, being peevish and being absorbed in small details.
    Ex: His limber writing consequentializes the inconsequential, and there is not one morose moment in his work, no hint of sourness.
    Ex: That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.
    Ex: The presence of this irony in ill-humored short articles from various journalistic sources is described.
    Ex: For example, you already know that living in a windowless room will make you cranky and out of sorts.
    Ex: Moody explorations of unexplained phenomenon can also be found = También se pueden encontrar exploraciones taciturnas de fenómenos inexplicables.
    Ex: Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex: To attain this order within the structure of chaos, Eros divided himself into two parts: Eros as amicable, social love and Eros as cantankerous, divisive discord.
    Ex: He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.
    Ex: The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex: A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex: His in danger of becoming hipped, a prey to his own doubts and fears, and unable to accomplish anything in life beyond catering to his own morbid fancies.
    Ex: My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex: They were be very mardy about it, but they accepted it, because if they hadn't their course grade would have suffered.
    Ex: We all have a grouch in our lives and if we wake up on the wrong side of the bed or take our daily mean pill, at the very nicest, we have been described as a ' grouch'.
    Ex: Life is too short to be in a grouch all the time.

    * * *
    1 [ SER] ‹persona/gesto› bad-tempered
    2 [ ESTAR] ‹persona› in a bad mood
    hoy se ha levantado/anda muy malhumorado he has woken up/he is in a very bad mood today
    * * *

    Del verbo malhumorar: ( conjugate malhumorar)

    malhumorado es:

    el participio

    malhumorado
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    a) [SER] ‹persona/gesto› bad-tempered

    b) [ESTAR] ‹ persona› in a bad mood

    malhumorado,-a adjetivo bad-tempered
    ' malhumorado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    malencarada
    - malencarado
    - malhumorada
    - colérico
    - taimado
    English:
    crabby
    - cross
    - crotchety
    - crusty
    - grumpy
    - ill-humoured
    - ill-tempered
    - mean
    - moody
    - morose
    - peevish
    - petulant
    - stroppy
    - bad
    - sulky
    - truculent
    * * *
    malhumorado, -a adj
    1. [de mal carácter] bad-tempered
    2. [enfadado] in a bad mood
    * * *
    adj bad-tempered
    * * *
    malhumorado, -da adj
    : bad-tempered, cross
    * * *
    malhumorado adj bad tempered [comp. worse tempered; superl. worst tempered]

    Spanish-English dictionary > malhumorado

  • 7 quejica

    adj.
    whining, hard to please, querulous, whimpering.
    f. & m.
    grouse, moaner, railer.
    * * *
    1 familiar complaining, grumpy, querulous
    1 moaner, grouse
    * * *
    1.
    2.
    SMF moaner, grumbler
    * * *
    adjetivo/masculino, femenino (Esp fam) quejón I, II
    * * *
    = curmudgeon, grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], curmudgeonly, cantankerous, crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], cry-baby, whiner, ornery, fusspot, fussbudget, whinging [winging].
    Ex. The most common problem suffered by curmudgeons turns out to be their circumscribed social life.
    Ex. That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.
    Ex. Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex. To attain this order within the structure of chaos, Eros divided himself into two parts: Eros as amicable, social love and Eros as cantankerous, divisive discord.
    Ex. For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex. Scientists agree: Conservatives are spoiled, selfish cry-babies.
    Ex. That being said, every normal person can think of places we've worked where we were more like whiners than winners.
    Ex. My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex. As for Steve, he traded his days as a bachelor for life with a fusspot.
    Ex. And they're playing an odd couple reminiscent of Neil Simon's classic pairing of a fussbudget and a slob.
    Ex. For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.
    * * *
    adjetivo/masculino, femenino (Esp fam) quejón I, II
    * * *
    = curmudgeon, grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], curmudgeonly, cantankerous, crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], cry-baby, whiner, ornery, fusspot, fussbudget, whinging [winging].

    Ex: The most common problem suffered by curmudgeons turns out to be their circumscribed social life.

    Ex: That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.
    Ex: Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex: To attain this order within the structure of chaos, Eros divided himself into two parts: Eros as amicable, social love and Eros as cantankerous, divisive discord.
    Ex: For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex: Scientists agree: Conservatives are spoiled, selfish cry-babies.
    Ex: That being said, every normal person can think of places we've worked where we were more like whiners than winners.
    Ex: My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex: As for Steve, he traded his days as a bachelor for life with a fusspot.
    Ex: And they're playing an odd couple reminiscent of Neil Simon's classic pairing of a fussbudget and a slob.
    Ex: For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.

    * * *
    ( Esp fam) whining ( before n) ( colloq)
    ( Esp fam)
    crybaby ( colloq), whinger ( colloq)
    * * *

    quejica adjetivo, masculino y femenino (Esp fam) See Also→

    quejica familiar
    I adjetivo whining
    II mf whiner, moaner

    * * *
    ♦ adj
    whining, Br whingeing;
    es muy quejica he's always whining o Br whingeing;
    no seas quejica y ponte a trabajar stop whining o Br whingeing and get some work done
    ♦ nmf
    whiner, Br whinger
    * * *
    fam
    I adj whining fam
    II m/f crybaby
    * * *
    quejica n moaner

    Spanish-English dictionary > quejica

  • 8 refunfuñón

    adj.
    grumpy, grumbling, moaning, grumbly.
    m.
    grumbler, grouch.
    * * *
    1 familiar grumpy, grumbling, moaning
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 familiar grumbler, moaner
    * * *
    refunfuñón, -ona *
    1.
    ADJ grumpy
    2.
    SM / F grouch *
    * * *
    I
    - ñona adjetivo (fam) grouchy (colloq), grumpy (colloq)
    II
    - ñona masculino, femenino (fam) grouch (colloq), grumbler (colloq)
    * * *
    = grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], curmudgeonly, cantankerous, bad-tempered, crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], ornery, in a mard, grouch.
    Ex. That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.
    Ex. Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex. To attain this order within the structure of chaos, Eros divided himself into two parts: Eros as amicable, social love and Eros as cantankerous, divisive discord.
    Ex. He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.
    Ex. For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex. The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex. My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex. She's been a right bitch and in a mard over the last week.
    Ex. We all have a grouch in our lives and if we wake up on the wrong side of the bed or take our daily mean pill, at the very nicest, we have been described as a ' grouch'.
    * * *
    I
    - ñona adjetivo (fam) grouchy (colloq), grumpy (colloq)
    II
    - ñona masculino, femenino (fam) grouch (colloq), grumbler (colloq)
    * * *
    = grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], curmudgeonly, cantankerous, bad-tempered, crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], ornery, in a mard, grouch.

    Ex: That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.

    Ex: Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex: To attain this order within the structure of chaos, Eros divided himself into two parts: Eros as amicable, social love and Eros as cantankerous, divisive discord.
    Ex: He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.
    Ex: For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex: The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex: My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex: She's been a right bitch and in a mard over the last week.
    Ex: We all have a grouch in our lives and if we wake up on the wrong side of the bed or take our daily mean pill, at the very nicest, we have been described as a ' grouch'.

    * * *
    ( fam); grouchy ( colloq), grumpy ( colloq)
    masculine, feminine
    ( fam)
    grouch ( colloq), grumbler ( colloq)
    * * *

    refunfuñón
    ◊ - ñona adjetivo (fam) grouchy (colloq), grumpy (colloq)


    * * *
    refunfuñón, -ona
    ♦ adj
    grumpy
    ♦ nm,f
    grumbler
    * * *
    I adj grouchy, grumpy
    II m, refunfuñona f grouch, grump

    Spanish-English dictionary > refunfuñón

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