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cranky/ˈkraŋki/
▶adjective (crankier, crankiest) informal
- 1 Brit. eccentric or strange.
- 2 chiefly N. Amer. ill-tempered; irritable.
- 3 (of a machine) working erratically.
– derivatives
crankily adverb,
crankiness noun.
crankily adverb,
crankiness noun.
– origin C18 (in the sense ‘sickly, in poor health’): perh. ult. from Du. or Ger. krank ‘sick’.
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