cranky
adjective
[ ˈkraŋki ]
• eccentric or strange.
• "a cranky scheme to pipe ground-level ozone into the stratosphere"
Similar:
eccentric,
bizarre,
weird,
peculiar,
odd,
quirky,
avant-garde,
unconventional,
off-centre,
strange,
outlandish,
ridiculous,
ludicrous,
mad,
insane,
crazy,
absurd,
wacky,
screwy,
nutty,
nuts,
crackpot,
cracked,
oddball,
kinky,
off the wall,
way out,
dippy,
cuckoo,
daft,
kooky,
wacko,
left-field,
dilly,
• bad-tempered; irritable.
• "he was cranky after eight hours of working"
Similar:
bad-tempered,
irritable,
irascible,
tetchy,
testy,
grumpy,
grouchy,
crotchety,
in a (bad) mood,
ill-tempered,
ill-natured,
ill-humoured,
peevish,
cross,
fractious,
disagreeable,
cantankerous,
curmudgeonly,
pettish,
crabbed,
crabby,
waspish,
prickly,
peppery,
touchy,
scratchy,
crusty,
splenetic,
shrewish,
short-tempered,
hot-tempered,
quick-tempered,
dyspeptic,
choleric,
bilious,
liverish,
cross-grained,
as cross as two sticks,
snappish,
snappy,
chippy,
on a short fuse,
short-fused,
shirty,
stroppy,
narky,
ratty,
eggy,
like a bear with a sore head,
ornery,
peckish,
soreheaded,
snaky,
waxy,
miffy,
• (of a machine) working erratically.
• "after a juddering landing the cranky plane eased up the runway"
Origin:
late 18th century (in the sense ‘sickly, in poor health’): perhaps from obsolete (counterfeit) crank ‘a rogue feigning sickness’, from Dutch or German krank ‘sick’.
