CRANKY

adj. 1 eccentric, odd, weird, strange, queer, peculiar, quirky, capricious, whimsical He's a cranky old bird who hardly goes out at all 2 testy, grouchy, crabby, short-tempered, surly, irascible, waspish, churlish, gruff, curmudgeonly, cantankerous, choleric, snappish, petulant, peevish, contentious, querulous, irritable, splenetic, Colloq crotchety He's always cranky before breakfast