transcription, транскрипция: [ kræŋki ]
1.
If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky , you disapprove of them because you think they are strange. ( INFORMAL )
Vegetarianism has shed its cranky image...
= eccentric
ADJ [ disapproval ]
2.
Cranky means bad-tempered. ( AM INFORMAL )
It was a long trek, and Jack and I both started to get cranky after about ten minutes.
= ratty
ADJ