cranky
Adjektivin Dialogen belegt
- Vereinigtes Königreich//kɹaŋkɪj//
- Australien//kɹæki//
- Schottland//kɾaŋke//
- Schottland//-kɪ//
- Schottland//-ki//
Not in good working condition; defective, faulty.
Adjektiv
- 1
Not in good working condition; defective, faulty.
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.
Margaret Cerullo gave a rousing speech, despite the pesky interruptions of a cranky sound system.
- 2
Grouchy, grumpy, irritable; easily upset.
He got home from a long day at work tired and cranky.
- 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
Synonym of crank (“of a ship: liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast”).
a cranky vessel
- 5
altertümlichFull of spirit; spirited.
- 6
veraltetWeak, unwell.
Herkunft
From crank + -y. Compare Middle Low German krankich (“sickly, unwell”).
Formen
- Komparativ
- crankier
- Superlativ
- crankiest