noun
- people who are bad-tempered, irritable, or easily annoyed
Usage: informal; plural of crosspatch
Examples
- The children called their grumpy neighbors crosspatches.
- Don’t be such crosspatches just because it’s raining.
- The old crosspatches complained about everything the young people did.
- After a long day at work, we all turned into crosspatches.
- She wondered why her usually cheerful friends had become crosspatches.
- The crosspatches at the meeting objected to every proposal.