LekhoriLekhoriNot 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.
Grouchy, grumpy, irritable; easily upset.
He got home from a long day at work tired and cranky.
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.
From crank + -y. Compare Middle Low German krankich (“sickly, unwell”).
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