ÉTYMOLOGIE DU MOT CANTANKEROUS
Perhaps from C14 (obsolete) conteckour a contentious person, from conteck strife, from Anglo-French contek, of obscure origin.
MOTS EN ANGLAIS EN RAPPORT AVEC «CANTANKEROUS»
cantankerous ·
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choleric ·
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crabby ·
cranky ·
crotchety ·
crusty ·
difficult ·
disagreeable ·
grouchy ·
grumpy ·
humoured ·
irascible ·
irritable ·
liverish ·
peevish ·
perverse ·
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ratty ·
testy ·
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waspish ·
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cantankerous ·
merriam ·
webster ·
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mule ·
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noun ·
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argumentative ·
perhaps ·
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contenkerous ·
reflecting ·
urban ·
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obey ·
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take ·
care ·
throw ·
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down ·
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cuss ·
3 CITATIONS EN ANGLAIS AVEC «CANTANKEROUS»
Citations et phrases célèbres avec le mot
cantankerous.
Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open to someone who is not a cantankerous bastard.
I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
10 LIVRES EN ANGLAIS EN RAPPORT AVEC «CANTANKEROUS»
Découvrez l'usage de
cantankerous dans la sélection bibliographique suivante. Des livres en rapport avec
cantankerous et de courts extraits de ceux-ci pour replacer dans son contexte son utilisation littéraire.
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Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of ...
Each of these birds shows a different and utterly surprising aspect of what makes a bird a bird-and these are the lessons of Birdology: that birds are far stranger, more wondrous, and at the same time more like us than we might have dared ...
2
Dishonourable Insults: A
Cantankerous Collection of ...
From Churchill to Cameron, Macaulay to Milliband, Greg Knight has once again compiled a witty collection of barbed insults and invective that will provide amusement and a source of reference for anyone searching for the ultimate put-down.
3
The Adventure of the
Cantankerous Old Lady
The Cantankerous Old Lady flared up.
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Cantankerous Child: How a nice child grew up to be a liberal ...
How a nice child grew up to be a liberal university professor. Nancy Sinclair. child
. I am heading for the peace of disassociation from Marigold once more. I have no
need to hear of him again. Because I am the mom his siblings, if in contact with ...
5
Head Rambles: With Ireland's Most
Cantankerous Auld Fella
A whimsical journey through the head of an ageing Irishman.
6
Word of the Day: Super Duper Words
One of the characters is a cantankerous lady. She's always in a bad mood, and
she likes to start fights over any little thing. In the story, all the neighbors come up
with a plan to help the lady change her ways. Someone who is cantankerous is ...
Perhaps you even degrade yourself by suggesting to the cantankerous fool
reasons which you know to be of no weight, but which your knowledge of the ibol
makes you think may have weight with his idiotic mind. By little bits of deference
and ...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
CONCERNING THE ADVANTAGES OF BEING A CANTANKEROUS FOOL; WITH
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE TREATMENT OF INCAPACITY. . xxxxx:
ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICAL RELIEF TO THE DESTITUTE SICK.
pEPROACHFUL face ...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
There are cantankerous fools whom you can keep at arm's* length ;
cantankerous fools with whom you need have nothing to do : cantankerous fools
whom having seen once, you need never see again. But human beings are
linked by many ...
... in this life is not by any means to do his own duty (which indeed is done very
lamely), but to find fault with the way in which other men do theirs : and it
becomes a grave question whether he be not as irritative as the cantankerous
fool.
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch,
1872
10 ACTUALITÉS CONTENANT LE TERME «CANTANKEROUS»
Découvrez de quoi on parle dans les médias nationaux et internationaux et comment le terme
cantankerous est employé dans le contexte des actualités suivantes.
Perry gets it: GOP needs black voters
... “Curb Your Enthusiasm” when the character Larry David (played in duly neurotic and cantankerous fashion by the real Larry David) discovers ... «Chicago Tribune, juil 15»
The Mayday Experiment: Bye Bye, Bertha
Bertha's ways were mysterious and cantankerous. And after completing half of her repairs with still a long way to go, I decided to stop throwing ... «Westword, juil 15»
PopTalk: Can You Separate Art From the Artist?
The infamously cantankerous Sun Kil Moon frontman Mark Kozelek added yet another controversy to his name on 1 June 2015. «PopMatters, juil 15»
Hesse: Germany's improbable Italia '90 run
Four years earlier, during the World Cup in Mexico, he had been, in the words of the journalist Karlheinz Wild, "highly tense, cantankerous, ... «ESPN FC, juil 15»
Song of the Sea Review
When Saiorse's found unconscious on the beach one stormy night, a cantankerous grandmother (Fionnula Flanagan) insists on taking the ... «Den of Geek!, juil 15»
The Scientific Secrets Of Doctor Who review
... the more recent series starring Peter Capaldi's cantankerous incarnation asked us to suspend disbelief most of the time (In The Forest Of The ... «Den Of Geek, juil 15»
'Transformers: Age of Extinction' Star Nicola Peltz Joins 'Youth in …
... tells of a husband (Crudup) on a cross-country trip to Oregon with his cantankerous father-in-law (Langella), a man who has given up on life. «Hollywood Reporter, juil 15»
Monet's water lilies: How the iconic paintings almost never made it to …
But local farmers have protested with their customary mischief.” He described the protestors as “bad neighbours” and “cantankerous peasants”. «The Independent, juil 15»
From '2001: A Space Odyssey' to the Bucks County Playhouse
But many tomorrows later, Dullea, age 79, is taking on one of the bigger roles of his life, that of a cantankerous retired professor in On Golden ... «WRTI, juil 15»
What to watch on TV tonight
The man could scarcely be more cantankerous if he tried, but whatever else is said about the former heroin addict who left behind a trail of ... «The Times, juil 15»