Meldrewish

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