Meldrewish
English
Etymology
Meldrew + -ish, after Victor Meldrew, a grumpy old man who is the fictional protagonist of the 1990s sitcom One Foot in the Grave.
Adjective
Meldrewish (comparative more Meldrewish, superlative most Meldrewish)
- grumpy; prone to peevish exasperation
- Synonym: Meldrewesque
- 1998, Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle, Harold Monro, Poetry Review (page 89)
- If occasionally a poem luxuriates in its nostalgia without much point ('Without Potatoes' is a Meldrewish whinge about Spud-U-Likes), […]
- 2007, The Spectator (volume 303, page 55)
- Far from being a Meldrewish ogre, Wilson turns out to be one of the friendliest, most open-hearted and most modest […]