[Ads-l] Antedating of "grumpy"

[Steven Losie]

Grumpy (OED3, 1778)

[begin quote]
How now, master Observator, why so grumpy? I never saw thee in such a
humour all the days of my life.
[end quote]
Source: A View of the Times, Their Principles and Practices: in the First
Volume of the Rehearsals, Vol. 1, 1750 (London), p.21 (Google Books)
Author: Charles Leslie
https://books.google.com/books?id=kJ9CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA21&dq=%22grumpy%22

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