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cranksome en · ADJ

Etymology

From crank + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised by cranking or crankiness; cranky.
   • “[...] Hiccup knows, we had enough trouble ferreting out the way here, along those tortive, cranksome pash—hic, pardon me—passages of yotun down below.” 2002, Joan Aiken, The Whispering Mountain:
   • “So he do; but then he's such a cranksome kind of old body. Ten to one if you speak to him he won't give you a civil answer.” 1894, London Society, volume 65:

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