a. [f. CROTCHET sb.1 + -Y1.] Given to crotchets; full of crotchets.
1825. Ld. Cockburn, Mem., 215. He was crotchety, positive and wild.
1867. Bright, Sp. Reform (1876), 408. All sorts of crotchety people.
b. Of actions, etc.: Of the nature of a crotchet.
1847. Disraeli, Tancred, VI. v. I threw no obstacles in his crotchetty course.
1890. Spectator, 25 Jan., 109/1. Crotchety attempts to alter the style and title of the House of Lords.
