different between crinky vs cranky

English

Adjective

crinky (comparative more crinky, superlative most crinky)

1. (rare) crinkly
   • 1929, Silk Association of America. Broad Silk Division, Cost accounting for broad silk weavers: a manual (page 207)

     […] cotton, wool or silk fabric, of various weight, having a crinky surface, formed by using alternately right hand and left hand twist yarns, in the filling.

English

Etymology

From crank +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?æ?ki/
• Rhymes: -æ?ki

Adjective

cranky (comparative crankier, superlative crankiest)

1. (obsolete) Weak, unwell.
2. (of a machine, etc.) Not in good working condition.

   Synonym: shaky

   • 1914, Theodore Roosevelt, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, The River of Doubt,

     We had seven canoes, all of them dugouts. One was small, one was cranky, and two were old, waterlogged, and leaky. The other three were good.

3. Grouchy, grumpy, irritable; easily upset.

4. Not in perfect mental working order; eccentric, peculiar.
   • 1934 December, Robert E. Howard, The Road to Bear Creek, in Action Stories,

     Uncle Esau is as cranky as hell, and a peculiar old duck, but I think he'll like a fine upstanding young man as big as you be.

5. (archaic) Full of spirit; spirited.
6. Synonym of crank (“of a ship: liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast”)

   a cranky vessel

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