cranky

crank·y ¹  (krngk)

adj. crank·i·er, crank·i·est

1. Having a bad disposition; peevish.

2. Having eccentric ways; odd.

3. Full of bends and turns; crooked: a cranky mountain road.

4. Working unpredictably; erratic: a cranky old truck.

5. Rickety; loose.

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cranki·ly adv.

cranki·ness n.

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crank·y ²  (krngk)

adj. crank·i·er, crank·i·est Nautical

Liable to capsize.

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cranky¹

adj crankier, crankiest

1. Informal eccentric

2. Chiefly US, Canadian, and Irish informal fussy and bad-tempered

3. shaky; out of order

4. full of bends and turns

5. Dialect unwell

crankily  adv

crankiness  n

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cranky²

adj crankier, crankiest

(Transport / Nautical Terms) Nautical another word for crank²

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	cranky - (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail crank, tippy, tender boat - a small vessel for travel on water unstable - lacking stability or fixity or firmness; "unstable political conditions"; "the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind"; "an unstable world economy"
	2.	cranky - easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" peevish, pettish, petulant, irritable, techy, testy, tetchy, nettlesome, peckish, scratchy, fractious ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition

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cranky

adjective (U.S., Canad., & Irish informal) eccentric, wacky (slang), oddball (informal), freakish, odd, strange, funny (informal), out there (slang), bizarre, peculiar, queer (informal), rum (Brit. slang), quirky, idiosyncratic, off-the-wall (slang), freaky (slang), outré, wacko or whacko (informal) Vegetarianism has shed its cranky image.

Translations

cranky [ˈkræŋkɪ] ADJ (crankier (compar) (crankiest (superl))) (= strange) [idea, person] → excéntrico (US) (= bad-tempered) → malhumorado, enojón(LAm)

cranky [ˈkræŋki] adj

(= eccentric) [idea] → excentrique, loufoque

(US) (= bad-tempered) → grincheux/euse, revêche

cranky

adj (+er)

(= eccentric) → verrückt

(esp US: = bad-tempered) → griesgrämig

cranky [ˈkræŋkɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (strange, ideas, people) → eccentrico/a, strambo/a
to be cranky (bad-tempered) → avere i nervi