adj.
(crankier, crankiest)
informal - Brit. eccentric or strange.
- chiefly N. Amer. ill-tempered; irritable.
- (of a machine) working erratically.
Derivative
- crankily adv.
- crankiness n.
Etymology
C18 (in the sense ‘sickly, in poor health’): perh. ult. from Du. or Ger. krank ‘sick’.
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