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English
Etymology
From crank + -y. Compare Middle Low German krankich (“sickly, unwell”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
cranky (comparative crankier, superlative crankiest)
- (of a machine, etc.) Not in good working condition.
- Synonym: shaky
- Grouchy, grumpy, irritable; easily upset.
He got home from a long day at work tired and cranky.
- Not in perfect mental working order; eccentric, peculiar.
- Synonym of crank (“of a ship: liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast”)
a cranky vessel
- (archaic) Full of spirit; spirited.
- (obsolete) Weak, unwell.
Translations
(of a machine, etc.) Not in good working condition
grouchy, irritable; easily upset
- Bulgarian: опак (bg) (opak), капризен (bg) (kaprizen)
- Danish: gnaven
- Dutch: opvliegend (nl), driftig (nl)
- Finnish: äreä (fi), ärtyisä (fi)
- French: grincheux (fr), chafouin (fr)
- German: gereizt (de), launisch (de)
- Ingrian: tulekas
- Irish: cantalach
- Japanese: 気難しい (ja) (kimuzukashii)
- Macedonian: ра́здразлив (rázdrazliv), на́мрштен (námršten), на́муртен (námurten)
- Portuguese: ranzinza (pt) m or f, irritável (pt)
- Russian: раздражительный (ru) (razdražitelʹnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: ćùdljiv, hiròvit (sh)
- Spanish: de mal genio, mañoso (es)
- Uzbek: tajang (uz)
- Welsh: piwis (cy), pifis, croes (cy)
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eccentric, peculiar
- Bulgarian: странен (bg) (stranen), ексцентричен (bg) (ekscentričen)
- Finnish: erikoinen (fi), originelli (fi), outo (fi), vinksahtanut
- German: schrullig (de), verschroben (de), spleenig, eigenartig (de), exzentrisch (de)
- Macedonian: чу́ден (čúden), ексце́нтричен (ekscéntričen), нео́бичен (neóbičen)
- Portuguese: excêntrico (pt)
- Russian: чудаковатый (ru) m (čudakovatyj), эксцентричный (ru) m (ekscentričnyj)
- Swedish: excentrisk (sv), knäpp (sv), tokig (sv)
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