Word Meanings - CURMUDGEONLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.

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• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• FELLOWSHIP
  1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
• FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
  companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
• NIGGARDLY
  In a niggard manner.
• FELLOW-FEELING
  1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
• FELLOWLIKE
  Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. Udall.
• FELLOWLY
  Fellowlike. Shak.
• FELLOW
  companionship, prop., a laying together of property; fe property + lag a laying, pl. lög law, akin to liggja to lie. See Fee, and Law, 1. A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer. The fellows of his crime. Milton. We are fellows
• CHURLISHLY
  In a churlish manner.
• CHURLISHNESS
  Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.
• CURMUDGEON
  An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl. A gray-headed curmudgeon of a negro. W. Irving. (more info) prob. from OF. muchier, mucier, F. musser to hide; of uncertain
• FELLOW-CREATURE
  One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator. Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes. I. Watts.
• CHURLISH
  1. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. "Churlish benefits." Ld. Burleigh. Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. Cowper. 2. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish
• FELLOWFEEL
  To share through sympathy; to participate in. D. Rodgers.
• CURMUDGEONLY
  Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.
• FELLOWLESS
  Without fellow or equal; peerless. Whose well-built walls are rare and fellowless. Chapman.
• BEDFELLOW
  One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
• UNFELLOWED
  Being without a fellow; unmatched; unmated. Shak.
• DISFELLOWSHIP
  To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart.
• ODD FELLOW
  A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment.
• PEWFELLOW
  1. One who occupies the same pew with another. 2. An intimate associate; a companion. Shak.
• GOOD-FELLOWSHIP
  Agreeable companionship; companionableness.
• PLAYFELLOW
  A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak.
• COACHFELLOW
  One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence , a comrade. Shak.
• WORKFELLOW
  One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.
• YOKEFELLOW
  An associate or companion in, or as in; a mate; a fellow; especially, a partner in marriage. Phil. iv. 3. The two languages became yokefellows in a still more intimate manner. Earle. Those who have most distinguished themselves by railing at the
• VOW-FELLOW
  One bound by the same vow as another. Shak.