Word of the Day: Cranky

cran-ky / ˈkraŋ-kē   adjective  

1. prone to fussiness; grouchy

Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling. Carlos Santana, 1947-  

2. eccentric

Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. Alexei Panshin, 1940-  

3. twisty or winding

[…] when you skip breakfast, the very first meal of the day, you are setting a cranky road for your day. Shragvee Shukla, ?- peerlessyou.com/2019/08/23/5-things-you-need-to-stop-doing-in-the-morning/  

4. erratic; in unpredictable working condition

There were orchards, a modest farmhouse, a sagging barn sheltering a cranky tractor old enough to be a historic landmark, and a chance to get back to his farming roots. from ‘A Man and his Mountain: The Everyman who Created Kendall-Jackson and Became America’s Greatest Wine Entrepreneur’ by Edward Humes, ?-