cran-ky / ˈkraŋ-kē
adjective prone to fussiness; grouchy Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling. Carlos Santana, 1947- eccentric Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. Alexei Panshin, 1940- twisty or winding […] when you skip breakfast, the very first meal of the day, you are setting a cranky road for your day. Shragvee Shukla, ?- peerlessyou.com/2019/08/23/5-things-you-need-to-stop-doing-in-the-morning/ erratic; in unpredictable working condition There were orchards, a modest farmhouse, a sagging barn sheltering a cranky tractor old enough to be a historic landmark, and a chance to get back to his farming roots. from ‘A Man and his Mountain: The Everyman who Created Kendall-Jackson and Became America’s Greatest Wine Entrepreneur’ by Edward Humes, ?-