cranky

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  1. adjective Having a bad disposition; peevish.
  2. adjective Having eccentric ways; odd.
  3. adjective Full of bends and turns; crooked: a cranky mountain road.
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  • I was still pretty heat-cranky, but was at least I was wearing a new sundress.This dress was made with the #013 It's-a-Cinch Sundress pattern, my newest Betsy Ross design!
  • I felt very cranky, and I wanted to go home and go to bed. —  DearlyDevotedDexter
  • All pink and cranky, there on the beach It is a story worth telling, for there is an important les­son to be learned from this bit of incidental literary his­tory. —  Prayers to Broken Stones
  • One more thing to make him cranky, as if the TGV ride from Paris, his sore left buttock, and France's first round World Cup elimination weren't irritants enough. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 01 - January 1999
  • I marvel at Seger's return, since he sounded old, cranky, and nostalgic even when he was young. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. from crank, n., + -y.
  2. from crank + -y. Cf. cranky, cranky, cranky.
  3. from crank + -y.
  4. Origin uncertain.
 

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