Definition of "crotchety" [crotch•et•y]

• Capriciously stubborn or eccentric; perverse. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "It's what I call a crotchety conscience -- always in the way of your doing anything like anybody else."
• "Yeah, the clothes alone would put the crotch in crotchety."
• "Most recently, Boyle was known as the crotchety father on the television comedy series Everybody loves Raymond."