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Refers to a person who expresses a trivial, out-of-touch, or idiosyncratic grievance; especially, with an implication of aged crotchetiness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, humorous
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From a scene in the 2002 episode "The Old Man and the Key" of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, in which Grampa Simpson, applying for a driver's license, produces a newspaper clipping with this headline for identification.
