This week’s word is sponsored by the letter “G,” as in “Get Off My Lawn.” We’ve all seen that cranky person before. We’ve probably been that person before.
Grumbletonian
A discontented person; one who is always railing at the times or ministry.
From the Yale University Library abstract:
A haggard-looking man is seated in profile to the left in an armchair beside a small table on which are two candles (which light the room), a medicine phial, &c, and his breeches. He wears shirt, night-cap, ungartered stockings, and slippers. He regards his hands with an expression of intense melancholy. The room and its contents show that he is a fashionable rake struck down by disease. A fire burns in the grate; on the chimney-piece (left) is a clock surmounted by a figure of Time as a winged skeleton with a scythe. Above is a picture, the right part alone visible; it is a free rendering of pl. iii of Hogarth’s ‘Rake’s Progress’ (BMSat 2188) showing the ballad-singer bawling the ‘Black Joke’. The frame of another picture is inscribed ‘Macies et nova febrium’: Pandora kneels holding open a box inscribed ‘Pandora’ into which Mercury (cf. BMSat 7592) drops a black spot. Above this is a tailless bird in a cage. A sash-window with a festooned curtain is partly shuttered. On the wall (right) is a large hat, a sword-belt, scabbard, and broken sword, and a pair of pistols. Below is a close-stool; torn papers lie on the floor, with a torn book: ‘Fashionable Cypriad’. In the foreground is a dog. The floor is carpeted. Beneath the table is engraved:
‘”Non vanae redeat Sanguis imagini,
“Quant virgd semel horridd
“Nigro compulerit Mercurius gregi.”‘ ? c. 1786
- Slang term taken from the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Obstinate Headstrong Girl ... author Renée Reynolds 
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