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cranky
(redirected from crankily)

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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.

cranki·ly adv.
cranki·ness n.

crank·y 2  (krngk)
adj. crank·i·er, crank·i·est Nautical
Liable to capsize.

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

cranky2
adj crankier, crankiest
(Transport / Nautical Terms) Nautical another word for crank2
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.cranky - (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
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"
ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition

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


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Her sister Laura (real-life sister Laura Silverman) bankrolls her irresponsibility but is kind of crankily selfish herself.
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At the cottage, lying beneath the window where the moon streamed in and lit the old painted bureau, had my mother crankily but rightfully complained about how everything had gone wrong, how the pan beneath the icebox had overflowed onto the kitchen floor (had I neglected to empty it?
 
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