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comparative crotchetier or more crotchety, superlative crotchetiest or most crotchety
Cranky, disagreeable, or stubborn, especially if prone to odd whims or fancies. quotations examples
“and Gerald‘s grandfather always picked his own mint before breakfast, while the dew was still on it. He wouldnt even let old Wilkie touch it do you remember Gerald but always gathered it himself and made his own julep. He was as crochety about his julep as an old maid, measuring everything by a recipe in his head. There was only one man he ever gave that recipe to; that was”
1929, William Faulkner, “JUNE SECOND 1910”, in The Sound and the Fury, Random House, Inc., published ≥1956, page 184