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In the mid-19th century, however, I should have replied, Words, words and their provisional meanings, with reference to the opposite and, at times, equally crotchety definitions of the same entries, reading Noah Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828) on the stage.
I would have taken in good earnest the definitions of those entries that people usually quote for gratuitous pleasure but dismiss as crotchety.
In person he is crotchety and condescending.
I am not some crotchety old fool.
But others find the film "beautifully crafted, intricately designed" (Eric Harrison, the Los Angeles Times ) and credit Samuel L. Jackson's outstanding performance as a crotchety and morally ambiguous violin appraiser.