cranky
英 ['kræŋkɪ]
美 ['kræŋki]
英語の語源
- cranky (adj.)
- "cross-tempered, irritable," 1807, from crank (n.) + -y (2). The evolution would be from earlier senses of crank, such as "a twist or fanciful turn of speech" (1590s); "inaccessible hole or crevice" (1560s). Grose's 1787 "Provincial Glossary" has "Cranky. Ailing sickly from the dutch crank, sick," and identifies it as a Northern word. Jamieson's Scottish dictionary (1825) has crank in a secondary sense of "hard, difficult," as in crank word, "a word hard to be understood;" crank job, "a work attended with difficulty, or requiring ingenuity in the execution." Related: Crankily; crankiness.
Ben. Dang it, don't you spare him--A cross grain'd cranky toad as ever crawl'd. (etc.) [Richard Cumberland, "Lovers Resolutions," Act I, 1813]
例文
- 1. The Front has often been dismissed as a cranky fringe group.
- アーティスト連盟は常に奇妙なエッジ組織と考えられている。
- 2.Vegetarianism has shed its cranky image.
- ベジタリアンはその奇妙なイメージから抜け出した。
- 3.It was a long trek，and Jack and I both started to get cranky after about ten minutes.
- それは長い旅で、私はジャックと約10分歩いてイライラし始めた。
- 4.On the loudspeaker his voice turned dull and cranky .
- スピーカーの中で、彼の声は重苦しくなり、違和感がある。
- 5.Seen was particularly cranky and quarreled with another little boy.
- ショーンの性格はとても荒っぽく、別の男の子とケンカになった。
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