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Cranky unknown Easily irritated, especially from being tired and especially in reference to a child (or at least someone who's patronized). One tends to be cranky at night (before needed sleep), while crabby soon after waking up. Whiney child, at 10pm: Noooo! Awesomenauts reddit. Crankynb 1 villagers (also called Grumpy villagers) are male villagers in the Animal Crossing series. The name is a direct reference to the meaning of cranky; someone who is irritated or annoyed easily. Prior to Animal Crossing: New Leaf, they were considered the male equivalent to the snooty villagers, but now are considered the equivalent to the more similar sisterly villagers.

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crank·y¹

(krăng′kē)adj.crank·i·er, crank·i·est

2. Having eccentric ways; odd.

3. Full of bends and turns; crooked: a cranky mountain road.

4. Working unpredictably; erratic: a cranky old truck.

crank′i·ly adv.

crank·y²

(krăng′kē)

adj.crank·i·er, crank·i·estNautical

cranky

(ˈkræŋkɪ) adj, crankierorcrankiest

2. chieflyinformalUSandCanadianandIrish fussy and bad-tempered

4. full of bends and turns

ˈcrankilyadv

crank•y¹

(ˈkræŋ ki)
adj. crank•i•er, crank•i•est.

1. ill-tempered; grouchy.

3. shaky; malfunctioning.

[1780–90]

crank′i•ness,n.

crank•y²

(ˈkræŋ ki)
adj. Naut.

[1835–45]

Adj.	1.	cranky - (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail crank, tippy, tender unstable - lacking stability or fixity or firmness; 'unstable political conditions'; 'the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind'; 'an unstable world economy'
2.	cranky - easily irritated or annoyed; 'an incorrigibly fractious young man'; 'not the least nettlesome of his countrymen' peevish, pettish, petulant, irritable, techy, testy, tetchy, nettlesome, peckish, scratchy, fractious ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition

cranky

adjective(U.S., Canad., & Irish informal)eccentric, wacky(slang), oddball(informal), freakish, odd, strange, funny(informal), out there(slang), bizarre, peculiar, queer(informal), rum(Brit. slang), quirky, idiosyncratic, off-the-wall(slang), freaky(slang), outré, wacko or whacko(informal)Vegetarianism has shed its cranky image.

cranky

adjective1. Having or showing a bad temper:

bad-tempered, cantankerous, crabbed, cross, disagreeable, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, nasty, peevish, petulant, querulous, snappish, snappy, surly, testy, ugly, waspish.

Idiom: out of sorts.

2. Deviating from the customary:

bizarre, curious, eccentric, erratic, freakish, idiosyncratic, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, singular, strange, unnatural, unusual, weird.

British Slang: rum, rummy.

potrhlýrozmrzelývýstřední

undarlegur; önugur

cranky

[ˈkræŋkɪ]ADJ (crankier (compar) (crankiest (superl))) (= strange) [idea, person] → excéntrico (US) (= bad-tempered) → malhumorado, enojón (LAm)

cranky

[ˈkræŋki]adj

(US) (= bad-tempered) → grincheux/euse, revêche

cranky

adj (+er)

(esp US: = bad-tempered) → griesgrämig

cranky

[ˈkræŋkɪ]adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (strange, ideas, people) → eccentrico/a, strambo/a
to be cranky (bad-tempered) → avere i nervi

crank

(krӕŋk) noun

a person with strange or odd ideas. anderste, eksentriek, malkop شَخْصُ شاذ الأطْوار чудак excêntrico ztřeštěnec wunderlicher Kauz særling; underlig fisk ιδιόρρυθμοςchiflado, excéntrico, raro ekstsentrik آدم عجیب و غریب sekopää excentriqueתמהוני धुरी की मोड़ čudak különc eksentrik sérvitringur eccentrico 変人 기인 keistuolis, ekscentrikas savādnieks; īpatnis; ekscentriķis orang yang aneh zonderlingskrue, særlingdziwak عجیب اوغریب سړی excêntrico excentric чудак blázon čudak čudak excentrisk individ, original คนที่มีความคิดประหลาด eksantrik birisi 怪人 ексцентрична людина, людина з примхами سنكى، خبطى người kỳ cục 怪人

ˈcranky adjective

knorrig, nors, lendelam شاذ الأطْوار екцентричен excêntrico potrhlý, výstřední; rozmrzelý wunderlich mærkelig; sær; irritabel εκκεντρικόςchiflado, excéntrico, raro ekstsentriline عجیب و غریب؛ غیر طبیعی omituinen excentrique; grincheuxמוזר, תמהוני ढीला čudan, nesiguran nehezen kezelhető; különc eksentrik undarlegur; önugur eccentrico 変わっている (성미) 까다로운, 괴팍한 keistas, ekscentriškas dīvains; untumains aneh zonderling, gammel, humeuriggretten, eksentrisk zbzikowany عجیب او غریب، غیر طبیعی excêntrico ciudat; arţăgos с причудами výstredný čudaški čudan excentrisk, underlig ที่แปลกประหลาด tuhaf 古怪的 ексцентричний, примхливий سنكى، خبطى، بد مزاج lạ lùng 古怪的

ˈcrankiness noun

andersgeit, knorrigheid, stuursheid شُذوذ الأطْوار ексцентричност excentricidade potrhlost, výstřednost; rozmrzelost die Wunderlichkeit særhed εκκεντρικότητα excentridad, rareza ekstsentrilisus کج خلقی omituisuus excentricité; humeur difficile רַגזָנוּת ढीलापन klimavost, ćudljivost nehezen kezelhető természet; különcség keeksentrikan sérviska; önuglyndi eccentricità 風変り 까다로움, 변덕스러움 keistumas, ekscentriškumas dīvainība; untumainība keanehan zonderlingheid, wrakheid, humeurigheid det å være gretten/eksentrisk zbzikowanie کرینکیس د موټر excentricidade ciudăţenie чудачество výstrednosť čudaštvo nastranost excentricitet ความแปลกประหลาด tuhaflık 古怪 ексцентричність بد مزاجى tính kỳ cục 古怪

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Related to crank: crank up

crank¹

(krăngk)n.

1. A device for transmitting rotary motion, consisting of a handle or arm attached at right angles to a shaft.

2. A clever turn of speech; a verbal conceit: quips and cranks.

4. Informal

b. An eccentric person, especially one who is unduly zealous.

v.cranked, crank·ing, cranks

v.tr.1.

a. To start or operate (an engine, for example) by or as if by turning a handle.

b. To move or operate (a window, for example) by or as if by turning a handle.

3. To provide with a handle that is used in turning.

v.intr.

2. To wind in a zigzagging course.

adj.

Of, being, or produced by an eccentric person: a crank letter; a crank phone call.

Phrasal Verbs: crank out

To produce, especially mechanically and rapidly: cranks out memo after memo.

crank up

1. To cause to start or get started as if by turning a crank: cranked up a massive publicity campaign.

2. To cause to intensify, as in volume or force: cranks up the sound on the stereo.

[Middle English, from Old English cranc- (as in crancstæf, weaving implement).]

crank²

(krăngk)

adj.Nautical

[Origin unknown.]

crank

(kræŋk) n

1. (Mechanical Engineering) a device for communicating motion or for converting reciprocating motion into rotary motion or vice versa. It consists of an arm projecting from a shaft, often with a second member attached to it parallel to the shaft

2. (General Engineering) Also called: crank handleorstarting handle a handle incorporating a crank, used to start an engine or motor

3. informal

a. an eccentric or odd person, esp someone who stubbornly maintains unusual views

4. (Mechanical Engineering) (tr) to rotate (a shaft) by means of a crank

5. (Mechanical Engineering) (tr) to start (an engine, motor, etc) by means of a crank handle

6. (tr) to bend, twist, or make into the shape of a crank

[Old English cranc; related to Middle Low German krunke wrinkle, Dutch krinkel crinkle]

crank

(kræŋk) or

cranky

adj

(Nautical Terms) (of a sailing vessel) easily keeled over by the wind; tender

[C17: of uncertain origin; perhaps related to crank¹]

crank¹

(kræŋk)
n.

1. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft.

3. an unbalanced person who is overzealous in the advocacy of a private cause.

5. a strikingly clever turn of speech or play on words.

7. methamphetamine prepared for illicit use.

v.t.

9. to rotate (a shaft) by means of a crank.

10. to start (an internal-combustion engine), esp. by turning the crankshaft manually.

12. to furnish with a crank.

v.i.

13. to turn a crank, as in starting an automobile engine.

15. crank out, to produce in a mass-production or mechanical way.

16. crank up,

b. to stimulate or produce: to crank up enthusiasm.

adj.

17. of, pertaining to, or by an unbalanced or overzealous person: a crank phone call.

[before 1000; Middle English cranke, Old English cranc-, in crancstǣf crank (see staff¹)]

crank²

(kræŋk)

also cranky

adj.

tending to roll easily, as a boat; tender (opposed to stiff).

crank

Past participle: cranked
Gerund: cranking

Imperative
crank
crank

Present
I crank
you crank
he/she/it cranks
we crank
you crank
they crank

Preterite
I cranked
you cranked
he/she/it cranked
we cranked
you cranked
they cranked

Present Continuous
I am cranking
you are cranking
he/she/it is cranking
we are cranking
you are cranking
they are cranking

Present Perfect
I have cranked
you have cranked
he/she/it has cranked
we have cranked
you have cranked
they have cranked

Past Continuous
I was cranking
you were cranking
he/she/it was cranking
we were cranking
you were cranking
they were cranking

Past Perfect
I had cranked
you had cranked
he/she/it had cranked
we had cranked
you had cranked
they had cranked

Future
I will crank
you will crank
he/she/it will crank
we will crank
you will crank
they will crank

Future Perfect
I will have cranked
you will have cranked
he/she/it will have cranked
we will have cranked
you will have cranked
they will have cranked

Future Continuous
I will be cranking
you will be cranking
he/she/it will be cranking
we will be cranking
you will be cranking
they will be cranking

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been cranking
you have been cranking
he/she/it has been cranking
we have been cranking
you have been cranking
they have been cranking

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been cranking
you will have been cranking
he/she/it will have been cranking
we will have been cranking
you will have been cranking
they will have been cranking

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been cranking
you had been cranking
he/she/it had been cranking
we had been cranking
you had been cranking
they had been cranking

Conditional
I would crank
you would crank
he/she/it would crank
we would crank
you would crank
they would crank

Past Conditional
I would have cranked
you would have cranked
he/she/it would have cranked
we would have cranked
you would have cranked
they would have cranked

Noun	1.	crank - a bad-tempered person crosspatch, grouch, grump, churl disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable hothead, fire-eater - a belligerent grouch misanthrope, misanthropist - someone who dislikes people in general
2.	crank - a whimsically eccentric person eccentric, eccentric person, oddball, flake, geek - a person with an unusual or odd personality
3.	crank - an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant deoxyephedrine, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, chicken feed, chalk, trash, glass, ice amphetamine, pep pill, upper, speed - a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression controlled substance - a drug or chemical substance whose possession and use are controlled by law
4.	crank - a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle crank handle, starting handle - crank used to start an engine
Verb	1.	crank - travel along a zigzag path; 'The river zigzags through the countryside' go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; 'How fast does your new car go?'; 'We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus'; 'The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect'; 'The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell'; 'news travelled fast'
2.	crank - start by cranking; 'crank up the engine' start up, start - get going or set in motion; 'We simply could not start the engine'; 'start up the computer'
3.	crank - rotate with a crank circumvolve, rotate - cause to turn on an axis or center; 'Rotate the handle'
4.	crank - fasten with a crank fasten, fix, secure - cause to be firmly attached; 'fasten the lock onto the door'; 'she fixed her gaze on the man'
5.	crank - bend into the shape of a crank twist, bend, deform, flex, turn - cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form; 'bend the rod'; 'twist the dough into a braid'; 'the strong man could turn an iron bar'
Adj.	1.	crank - (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail boat - a small vessel for travel on water unstable - lacking stability or fixity or firmness; 'unstable political conditions'; 'the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind'; 'an unstable world economy'

crank

noun(Informal)eccentric, freak(informal), oddball(informal), weirdo or weirdie(informal), case(informal), character(informal), nut(slang), flake(slang, chiefly U.S.), screwball(slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), odd fish(informal), kook(U.S. & Canad. informal), queer fish(Brit. informal), rum customer(Brit. slang), wacko or whacko(informal)People think I'm a crank because of my beliefs.

crank

noun1. Informal. A person who habitually complains or grumbles:

complainer, crab, faultfinder, grouch, growler, grumbler, grump, murmurer, mutterer, whiner.

Slang: bellyacher, sorehead, sourpuss.

2. Informal. A person regarded as strange, eccentric, or crazy:

Informal: loon, loony.

Slang: cuckoo, ding-a-ling, dingbat, kook, nut, screwball, weirdie, weirdo.

maneta

særling

sérvitringur

ekscentrikasekscentriškasekscentriškumaskeistumaskeistuolis

eksantrik birisi

crank

¹[kræŋk]

B.VT (alsocrank up) [+ engine] → hacerarrancar con la manivela

crank upVT + ADV

1. [+ hearing aid] → subir; [+ music] →
to crank up the volume → subir el volumen

2. (= intensify) [+ campaign, bombing] → intensificar

crank

²[kræŋk]N (= eccentric person) → excéntrico/a m/f (US) (= bad-tempered person) → ogrom, cascarrabiasmf inv

crank

[ˈkræŋk]n

(= person) → excentriquemf

crank

n(= eccentric person) → Spinner(in)m(f) (inf); (US: = cross person) → Griesgramm

crank

vt(also crank up) → ankurbeln

crank

[kræŋk]1.n

b. (person) → eccentrico/a, personastramba

crank

(krӕŋk) noun

ˈcranky adjective

ˈcrankiness noun

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