In a grouchy manner; complainingly, bad-temperedly, or with irritation.
From grouchy plus the adverbial suffix -ly, which converts adjectives into adverbs describing how an action is performed.
The -ly suffix is one of English's most productive tools—we can instantly turn almost any adjective into an adverb describing how something happens, which is why we have words like 'grouchily'!
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