cranky

英 ['kræŋkɪ] 美 ['kræŋki]

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※ 提供单词"cranky"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

cranky (adj.): "cross-tempered, irritable," 1807, from crank (n.) + -y (2). The evolution would be from earlier senses of crank, such as "a twist or fanciful turn of speech" (1590s); "inaccessible hole or crevice" (1560s). Grose's 1787 "Provincial Glossary" has "Cranky. Ailing sickly from the dutch crank, sick," and identifies it as a Northern word. Jamieson's Scottish dictionary (1825) has crank in a secondary sense of "hard, difficult," as in crank word, "a word hard to be understood;" crank job, "a work attended with difficulty, or requiring ingenuity in the execution." Related: Crankily; crankiness.
Ben. Dang it, don't you spare him--A cross grain'd cranky toad as ever crawl'd. (etc.) [Richard Cumberland, "Lovers Resolutions," Act I, 1813]

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1. The Front has often been dismissed as a cranky fringe group.: 艺术家联盟常被认为是一个古怪的边缘组织。

3. It was a long trek, and Jack and I both started to get cranky after about ten minutes.: 那是一次长途跋涉，我和杰克走了约10分钟便开始烦躁不安起来。

4. On the loudspeaker his voice turned dull and cranky.: 在扬声器中,他的声音变得沉闷,听起来别扭.

5. Seen was particularly cranky and quarreled with another little boy.: 肖恩的脾气特别暴燥,他和另一个小男孩吵了起来.