TETCHY

Les said, "You're getting crotchety in your old age."  Defensively, I moaned, "Whadda ya mean:  OLD?"  He replied, "It is interesting that you would be offended by the OLD rather than the CROTCHETY!"  

I asked, "What the Hell does crotchety mean, anyway?"  

From Merriam-Webster:
CROTCHETY:  "subject to whims, crankiness, or ill-tempered." SYNONYMS: irascible, bad-tempered, irritable, grumpy, grouchy, short-tempered, tetchy, testy, curmudgeonly, ill-tempered, ill-natured, cross, peevish, waspish, crabby, crusty, prickly, touchy, snappish, snappy, cranky, and ornery.

Les said, "At least I didn't say you were IRASCIBLE."  I said, "I do rather like TETCHY!"

This made me start to thinking about words which are usually just associated with those who are OLD:

biddy
hag
codger
geezer
curmudgeon
grumpy
cantankerous
crusty
crabby
fogey
crow
battle-axe
decrepit
feeble
goat
fart
ancient
fossil
hoary

Les just chimed in with:

coot
crone
slattern
garrulous

We discussed that a great number of these are gender-specific:

FEMALE: hag, crone, battle-axe , crow, slattern, garrulous
MALE: coot, codger, hoary

So WHY are there more derogatory ones toward women? OOPS! Being CROTCHETY!