cranky

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crank‧y/ˈkræŋki/ adjective
[date : 1700-1800; Origin : Partly from ⇨ crank¹; partly from crank 'loose, not working properly' (18-19 centuries) (perhaps from Dutch or German krank 'weak, ill')]
1. British English informal strange ⇨ eccentric, weird:
　 ▪ Organic farming is no longer thought of as cranky.

2. informal bad-tempered:
　 ▪ I was feeling tired and cranky.

—crankiness noun [UNCOUNTABLE]

adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Scott seems a little cranky this morning.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But on another plane, there was a certain determined grumbling, a cranky insistence that they were not meeting their standards.
▪ On arrival the boy was cranky and refused to walk through the airport.
▪ They became cranky and quarrelsome, and stopped most of their activities in order to conserve energy.
▪ We had a fairly peaceful time, but Clarisa and Janir argued a lot, and she was a cranky visitor.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  crank, tender, tippy