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What does cranky mean?

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Adjective
  1. (obsolete) Weak, unwell.
  2. (of a machine, etc.) Not in good working condition; shaky.
  3. Grouchy, irritable; easily upset.
  4. Not in perfect mental working order; eccentric, peculiar.
  5. (archaic) Full of spirit; spirited.
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One looked about four and was lying limply in his mothers' arms, all feverish and cranky.
A cranky old man who scolds children for making noise violates with his loud voice the very quietness he upholds.
Usually when I'm sick or getting sick, I start to feel droopy and miserable and cranky and unable to function, and I just want to take to my bed.
If you camp out somewhere, knowing full well that it's against the law, you can't really get too cranky about it when someone comes to roust you.
Selina was tired, she was cranky and she was becoming tired of her coach's belittlement.
He has a cranky Luddite streak, and he may be amplifying it for comic effect.

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