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someone who has run the cost-benefit analysis on niceness and rejected it.
means a person, often older, who is habitually grumpy, stubborn, and allergic to sentimentality but usually right.
from english, 16th century, origin genuinely disputed — one old and probably wrong theory claimed it came from french coeur mechant, wicked heart, which is a better story than an explanation.
secretly softoften has a marshmallow center, denies it loudly
johnson's dictionarysamuel johnson mislabeled its french origin, spread the myth
peak usagespikes whenever someone mentions small talk