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CURMUDGEONLY
Definition of CURMUDGEONLY
adjective
Characteristic of a curmudgeon; churlish.
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Other senses
CURMUDGEONLY carries 3 further meanings.
Like a curmudgeon; avaricious; churlish.
adjective
Like a curmudgeon; churlish.
“a curmudgeonly fellow”
adjective
brusque and surly and forbidding
“gruff manner”
Where it comes from
From curmudgeon + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CURMUDGEONLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 228 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 20, 9 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CURMUDGEONLY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CDEGLMNORUUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of CURMUDGEONLY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start CURMUDGE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found CURMUDGEONLY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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