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cranksome

adj

Etymology

From crank + -some.

  1. inherited from *krangaz✻
  2. derived from *krank✻
  3. borrowed from krank
  4. suffixed as cranksome — “crank + some”

Definitions

  1. Characterised by cranking or crankiness

    Characterised by cranking or crankiness; cranky

    • “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.”
    • “[...] Hiccup knows, we had enough trouble ferreting out the way here, along those tortive, cranksome pash—hic, pardon me—passages of yotun down below.”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA