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What (who) is cranky - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Cranky (disambiguation)
cranky
1.
If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange. (INFORMAL)
Vegetarianism has shed its cranky image...
= eccentric
ADJ [disapproval]
2.
Cranky means bad-tempered. (AM INFORMAL)
It was a long trek, and Jack and I both started to get cranky after about ten minutes.
= ratty
ADJ
Cranky
·adj Full of spirit; crank.
II. Cranky ·adj Unsteady; easy to upset; crank.
III. Cranky ·adj Addicted to crotchets and whims; unreasonable in opinions; crotchety.
cranky
¦ adjective (crankier, crankiest) informal
1. Brit. eccentric or strange.
2. chiefly N. Amer. ill-tempered; irritable.
3. (of a machine) working erratically.
Derivatives
crankily adverb
crankiness noun
Origin
C18 (in the sense 'sickly, in poor health'): perh. ult. from Du. or Ger. krank 'sick'.
Wikipedia
Cranky
Cranky may refer to:
- Irritability
- Cranky Kong, a character from the Donkey Kong video game series
- Cranky the Crane, a character from the children's television series Thomas & Friends
- Cranky Doodle Donkey, a character in the Canadian animated TV series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
- Mr. Cranky, a satirical film critic personae since 1995
- Cranky, a character from Where's My Water?
Examples of use of cranky
1. "I‘m tired and old and cranky," Taormina said in April.
2. A cranky minority party came prepared for a pillow fight.
3. "You ain‘t funny, and you ain‘t cranky, but you‘re straight.
4. "If you don‘t get enough to eat, you get cranky," Farley said.
5. And no one knows if those people sleep a lot or are cranky.