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单词 crankery
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crankeryn.

Etymology: < crank n.2 5 + -ery suffix: compare foolery, knavery.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcrankery.
The characteristics of a ‘crank’; crack-brainedness, enthusiastic eccentricity.
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fantasticalness1581
fantasticality1592
eccentricity1657
fantasticness1661
out-of-the-wayness1800
nuttiness1865
crankiness1870
crankism1882
crankery1884
faddishness1884
faddism1885
crankness1890
pottiness1933
wackiness1941
offbeatness1960
kookiness1962
1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 17 Oct. 15/3 Crankery ranges all the way from dangerous approach to insanity, to the one-idead fanatics in pseudo-scientific research [etc.].
1890 Sat. Rev. 19 Apr. 481/2 The thoughts and words of a ‘crank’, often very amusing and interesting in themselves, and as a study of crankery.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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