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  • cranky — adj. (crankier, crankiest) 1 colloq. eccentric, esp. obsessed with a particular theory (cranky ideas about women). 2 working badly; shaky. 3 esp. US ill tempered or crotchety. Derivatives: crankily adv. crankiness n. Etymology: perh. f. obs.… …   Useful english dictionary

  • cranky — [[t]kræ̱ŋki[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED (disapproval) 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... The Front has often been dismissed… …   English dictionary

  • cranky — I. adjective (crankier; est) Etymology: 1crank Date: 1821 1. a. given to fretful fussiness ; readily angered when opposed ; crotchety < our long wait…left us a tad cranky Connecticut > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • cranky — adjective 1 bad tempered: The baby s a little cranky this morning. 2 BrE having very strange ideas, or behaving strangely; eccentric 1 (1): She s just a cranky old woman. crankiness noun (U) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • Crank (person) — Crank is a pejorative term used for a person who unshakably holds a belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false.[1] A cranky belief is so wildly at variance with commonly accepted belief as to be ludicrous. Cranks… …   Wikipedia

  • irascible — irascible, choleric, splenetic, testy, touchy, cranky, cross mean easily angered or enraged. Irascible implies the possession of a fiery or inflammable temper or a tendency to flare up at the slightest provocation {the irascible but kindhearted… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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