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单词 cranky
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 strangeeccentric, 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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