单词	crankiness
释义	crankycrank‧y /ˈkræŋki/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINcranky Origin: 1700-1800 Partly from ➔ CRANK1; partly from crank ‘loose, not working properly’ (18-19 centuries) (perhaps from Dutch or German krank ‘weak, ill’) Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Scott seems a little cranky this morning. EXAMPLES FROM THE 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. 1British English informal strange → eccentric, weird:  Organic farming is no longer thought of as cranky.2informal bad-tempered:  I was feeling tired and cranky.—crankiness noun [uncountable]
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