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cranky

Definitions


[ˈkraŋki], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- eccentric or strange
(e.g: a cranky scheme to pipe ground-level ozone into the stratosphere)

- bad-tempered; irritable
(e.g: he was cranky after eight hours of working)

- (of a machine) working erratically
(e.g: after a juddering landing the cranky plane eased up the runway)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 18th century (in the sense ‘sickly, in poor health’): perhaps from obsolete (counterfeit) crank ‘a rogue feigning sickness’, from Dutch or German krank ‘sick’




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