cranky

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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. 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. Full of spirit; spirited. archaic
  6. Weak, unwell. obsolete

词形变化

crankier comparative crankiest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
crankily crankiness

词源

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