- 1脾氣壞又愛抬槓的、難相處的（常帶點好笑或無奈的口氣，像形容固執的老人家）
Describes a person who is easily , argues about small things, and is unpleasant to deal with — someone who says no first and complains while doing it. It is a strong word, but a warm-sounding one: it is often used about an old man, a grandfather, a neighbour, or a difficult but loved family member, and it can carry a small smile rather than real anger. Compare , which is milder and more temporary, and bad-tempered, which is plainer; cantankerous suggests that arguing is the person's settled character, not their mood today. It is a slightly literary, storybook word — common in novels, reviews, and jokes, less common in a serious complaint about a real colleague, where it would sound too colourful. You can also use it of a machine or an animal that will not cooperate: a cantankerous old car, a cantankerous mule.
組成Probably a blend of two older words: contentious (always wanting to argue) and rancorous (full of old bitterness). Scholars are not certain, but an earlier form contenkerous points that way.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cantankerousadj/kænˈtæŋkəɹəs/
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Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby.
- "She is a cantankerous old maid," added another, whom I recognised, by his voice, as a man whose attentions I had put a determined check to not six weeks before: "she is a cantankerous old maid, fretting and snarling over the loss of her beauty."
- Murphy's Law never proved itself more accurate than at the Nov. 18 film benefit for Persephone Press. With problems ranging from a cantankerous projector to blown fuses, the presentations of Jan Oxenberg's films were blurred, disrupted and played with lapses in their soundtracks.
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