It means to be irritable or contrary; cantankerous.
Crotchety means to be irritable and grumpily.
thesaurus.com bad-tempered, cantankerous*, crabby*, cross, crotchety, disgruntled, dissatisfied, griping, grouchy*, grumbling, irritable, peevish, pettish, petulant, querulous, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, truculent
Some synonyms for irritable: easily exasperated or exited, responsive to stimuli, choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, crotchety, fiery, grouchy, grumpy, irascible, peevish, perverse, pettish petulant, prickly, quick-tempered, raspy, ratty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snarky, snippety, snippy, stuffy, test, waspish, out of humor, out of sorts, etc. Below I will add a link to the Merriam Webster Online Dictionary.
Mean
The haudensaunee mean irguios
MEAN ignoble - being mean signify - mean
Translation: Crotchety Old-Person
I think you may mean crotchety, which describes a bad tempered person. 'Being overtired always makes me crotchety and I snap at everyone.'
The crotchety old man chased the kids out of his backyard.
"The crotchety old man never seemed to have anything nice to say and always carried himself in an unpleasent manner." "It is unfortunate that the teacher asked me to work with the most crotchety student." Crotchety is an adjective, so it would be used like how any adjective would be used as.
I don't know! maybe it is something you use to print with?
No one like to sit next to the crochety student.
Crotchety or cantankerous.
Crotchety and miserable Scrooge was rich but tightfisted. He eventually learned the connection between well being and generosity.
Some are, yes, but not necessarily because they are old. I've met more than a few young people who were rather disagreeable...
petulant, peevish, pettish, complaining, fractious, fretful, irritable, testy, tetchy, cross, snappish, crabby, crotchety, cantankerous, miserable, moody, grumpy, bad-tempered, sullen, sulky, sour, churlish;
thesaurus.com bad-tempered, cantankerous*, crabby*, cross, crotchety, disgruntled, dissatisfied, griping, grouchy*, grumbling, irritable, peevish, pettish, petulant, querulous, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, truculent
<<His name was Phil Burns. He was replaced because Larry David didn't think he was "crotchety" enough.>> The actor who played Morty Seinfeld at the beginning of the series (for one episode) was Philip Bruns (not "Burns").