cranky
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈkɹæŋki/
cranky (comparative crankier, superlative crankiest)
- (obsolete) Weak, unwell.
- (of a machine, etc.) Not in good working condition.
- Synonyms: 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,
- (archaic) Full of spirit; spirited.
- French: grincheux, chafouin
- German: gereizt, launisch
- Portuguese: ranzinza
- Russian: раздражительный
- Spanish: mal genio, mañoso
- Russian: чудаковатый
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