Definition of "grouty" [grout•y]

• Turbid as with liquor. (adjective)
• Angry or surly, sulky. (adjective)

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• "Been quite 'grouty' all the vacation, 'black as Erebus.'"
• ""Ho, ho, you feel kind of grouty, eh?" said the blacksmith."
• "Carina Chocano in the Los Angeles Times: "For all its sly appraisals, grouty surfaces and hard-luck situations, The Italian is underneath it all a fairy-tale, though the thought doesn't crystallize until later.""