Definitions
easily irritated or annoyed
Word origin
From crank + -y. Compare Middle Low German krankich (“sickly, unwell”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“He got home from a long day at work tired and cranky.”
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01“Easily cross”6 letters
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