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Someone who is cranky is in a bad mood and gets easily, often over small things. People say a tired baby or an old man who did not sleep well is cranky. It can also describe a machine that does not work smoothly and breaks down often, like "a cranky old printer."
脾氣暴躁、易怒的；（機器）動不動就出問題的
組成Many people think this comes from "crank" — an old word for a strange or bad-tempered person, and also the name of a metal handle you turn. Nobody is fully sure how the two meanings connect.
同家族的字
- cranka crank was an old word for a grumpy or odd person, and cranky may come from it
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
crankyadj/kɹæki/
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Not in good working condition; defective, faulty.
- We had seven canoes, all of them dugouts. One was small, one was cranky, and two were old, waterlogged, and leaky. The other three were good.
- Margaret Cerullo gave a rousing speech, despite the pesky interruptions of a cranky sound system.
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Grouchy, grumpy, irritable; easily upset.
- He got home from a long day at work tired and cranky.
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Not in perfect mental working order; eccentric, peculiar.
- Uncle Esau is as cranky as hell, and a peculiar old duck, but I think he'll like a fine upstanding young man as big as you be.
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Synonym of crank (“of a ship: liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast”).
- a cranky vessel
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archaicFull of spirit; spirited.
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obsoleteWeak, unwell.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。