cranky
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From crank + -y. Compare Middle Low German krankich (“sickly, unwell”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
cranky (comparative crankier, superlative crankiest)
- (of a machine, etc.) Not in good working condition.
- Synonym: shaky
- 1914, Theodore Roosevelt, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, The River of Doubt,
- We had seven canoes, all of them dugouts. One was small, one was cranky, and two were old, waterlogged, and leaky. The other three were good.
- Grouchy, grumpy, irritable; easily upset.
- He got home from a long day at work tired and cranky.
- Not in perfect mental working order; eccentric, peculiar.
- 1934 December, Robert E. Howard, The Road to Bear Creek, in Action Stories,
- Uncle Esau is as cranky as hell, and a peculiar old duck, but I think he'll like a fine upstanding young man as big as you be.
- 1934 December, Robert E. Howard, The Road to Bear Creek, in Action Stories,
- Synonym of crank (“of a ship: liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast”)
- a cranky vessel
- (archaic) Full of spirit; spirited.
- (obsolete) Weak, unwell.
Translations[edit]
(of a machine, etc.) Not in good working condition
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grouchy, irritable; easily upset
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eccentric, peculiar
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