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If someone is crotchety, they get easily, often over small things, and they may complain or snap. It often paints an older person having a day, though a tired child can be crotchety too. The feeling is mild to medium, not wild anger: more “leave me alone” than a big fight. It is informal, a little old-fashioned and storybook, and usually said about someone else, not as a proud word about yourself. You can be crotchety about noise, about waiting, about the weather — almost anything small that lands on a thin mood. Though actually, it does not come from the music note. Long ago a also meant a strange little idea or fancy. Someone full of those fancies seemed hard to please, and crotchety grew from that. So the word is about a prickly mood and odd likes, not about playing music. Kind speakers still use it with a half-smile, not as a hard insult.
愛發脾氣的；動不動就煩的
組成crotchet (old sense: a whim, a strange little idea) + -y (full of that quality).
同家族的字
- crotchetthe older “odd idea” sense of crotchet, not the quarter-note sense, is the piece inside this word
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
crotchetyadj/ˈkɹɒtʃ.ə.tɪ/
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Cranky, disagreeable, or stubborn, especially if prone to odd whims or fancies.
- He wouldnt even let old Wilkie touch it do you remember Gerald but always gathered it himself and made his own julep. He was as crochety about his julep as an old maid, measuring everything by a recipe in his head.
- He has a happy home life, two sitcoms on the go and a new book in the offing. So why is the comedian, actor and Observer columnist still so crotchety?
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。