cranksome
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cranksome (comparative more cranksome, superlative most cranksome)
- Characterised by cranking or crankiness; cranky
- 1894, London Society, volume 65:
- “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.”
- 2002, Joan Aiken, The Whispering Mountain:
- “[...] Hiccup knows, we had enough trouble ferreting out the way here, along those tortive, cranksome pash—hic, pardon me—passages of yotun down below.”