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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.
In person he is crotchety and condescending.
H. L. Mencken, in one of his more crotchety moods, said this: The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.
In Flannery O'Connor's story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," a crotchety and self-centered grandmother, held at gunpoint by an escaped convict in rural Georgia, becomes suddenly sensitive.
I would have taken in good earnest the definitions of those entries that people usually quote for gratuitous pleasure but dismiss as crotchety.