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Cranky

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not in good working condition; defective, faulty. usually

    "We had seven canoes, all of them dugouts. One was small, one was cranky, and two were old, waterlogged, and leaky. The other three were good."

  2. 2
    Grouchy, grumpy, irritable; easily upset.

    "He got home from a long day at work tired and cranky."

  3. 3
    Not in perfect mental working order; eccentric, peculiar.

    "Uncle Esau is as cranky as hell, and a peculiar old duck, but I think he'll like a fine upstanding young man as big as you be."

  4. 4
    Synonym of crank (“of a ship: liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast”).

    "a cranky vessel"

  5. 5
    Full of spirit; spirited. archaic
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  1. 6
    Weak, unwell. obsolete
Adjective
  1. 1
    easily irritated or annoyed wordnet
  2. 2
    (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail wordnet

Etymology

From crank + -y. Compare Middle Low German krankich (“sickly, unwell”).

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