An adjective, usually used to describe a person of somewhat advanced years, who is disagreeable to deal with, but has excellent, provocative chat, or banter.
Dave: Saw Frank today in the supermarket. The miserable bugger's convinced we should house all homeless people in jail and let them eat the prisoners.
Boris: Yeah, he's a bantankerous old git, isn't he?!
Boris: Yeah, he's a bantankerous old git, isn't he?!
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by Rachel December 10, 2004
Get the cantankerous mug.disagreeable to deal with; contentious; peevish. tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable. Someone that acts stubbornly obstructive and is unwilling to cooperate
a cantankerous, argumentative man.
by Ms.Cordero January 22, 2008
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by Micki the Magnificent August 7, 2006
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"I don't want to do that, it sounds stupid, I don't like this, I don't like that, waah waah waah"
"Damnit, you are such a Cantankerous Gnome! You wanna go stand in my yard and hold a candel? Or maybe live in a Tree?"
*Poses*
"Damnit, you are such a Cantankerous Gnome! You wanna go stand in my yard and hold a candel? Or maybe live in a Tree?"
*Poses*
by Immortal-Jake May 18, 2006
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