crosspatch

Other forms of crosspatch

plural

crosspatches·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crosspatch

What does crosspatch mean?

crosspatch means "a bad-tempered person".

How many syllables are in crosspatch?

crosspatch has 2 syllables: cros-spatch. The stress falls on "cros".

What is another word for crosspatch?

Close synonyms include grouch, grump, crank, churl. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crosspatch a common word?

crosspatch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.