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The face resting between disappointed and about to sigh loudly.
means A persistent state of irritable, low-grade bad temper — the sulky grouchiness that colors everything slightly gray.
from From 'grumpy,' which emerged in the 1700s from 'grump,' originally found in the phrase 'humps and grumps' meaning sulks or fits of ill-temper. The word itself is likely imitative — a grumble-ish, grunt-ish sound that just feels like the mood it names. 'Grumpiness' tacks on the tidy '-ness' to turn the mood into a noun you can carry around, scowling, all day.
- root cause
- often just hunger or bad sleep
- misread as
- wisdom by people who dont know better
- secret function
- keeps overly chatty strangers away
- peak form
- silence that somehow sounds annoyed