Or how about a tattoo parlor? What would happen if the artist were painstakingly etching the name Vinny into the fleshy arm of a crotchety client when the resident dog accidentally bumped his arm?
Once I did have to climb a tree, when I met two crotchety old bulls along a narrow track.
Suffice it to say, though, it is Arthur (with crotchety old Grandsanta's help) who finally saves the day when elder brother Steve's high-tech logistics system overlooks one little girl's stocking.
You grow old if you are irritable, crotchety, petulant, and cantankerous.
A long, crotchety letter, as we might say in Chile: gloomy and irritable.
