# Captain Queeg

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. An irrationally oppressive and bad-tempered person.

## Etymology
After a character in the 1951 novel The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/captain-queeg