A person who is easily annoyed.
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Examples for "crank "
1 Last year's debut model could crank through 600 billion operations per second.
2 Needless to say, Bennewitz was treated by many as simply a crank .
3 He had attempted in vain to take the pedal off the crank .
4 Of course, I may also have persuaded them that I'm a crank .
5 He only hoped the article wouldn't increase the rate of crank visits.
1 His opposite in character was Pepper Sneed, the grouch of the company.
2 Christian Scientists do not have either the grouch or the meddler's itch.
3 This sort of thing is enough to give any one a grouch .
4 Maybe that would take some of the grouch out of Tom Kyle.
5 I don't want you to descend to the level of the grouch .
1 My heart lurched with anger; the churl might have lowered his voice.
2 In that case I cannot be such a churl as to refuse.
3 I should be a churl if I did not tell you so.
4 But he is a mannerless churl , we will not think of him.
5 My kinswoman could have received no greater kindness at the churl 's hands.
1 However, our local curmudgeon claims it creates 'a great level of annoyance'.
2 Nice to know the curmudgeon in the nightclub is alive and well.
3 He was not a curmudgeon with his money; he was no miser.
4 The old curmudgeon had gone, but the garden gate was again a-swing.
5 Even the hardest curmudgeon tends to be disarmed by a laughing infant.
1 Simply the greatest maid, confidante, factotum and grump of her generation.
2 By the psychologist's own account, he was a depressive grump for 40 years.
3 Allie the amazon stayed on the bed right next to Maria the grump .
4 The joy of Monday turned Rivers into a grump on Wednesday.
5 The taxi driver sensed my grump and never uttered a word.
1 But it's no use to ask such a crosspatch to take me.
2 He was just an old crosspatch in a natural wool tunic; I could have been wrong.
3 There, dearie, don't mind an old crosspatch .
4 Just because your father's an old crosspatch , YOU haven't lost your rights to his name and property.
5 Oh, yes, yes; we know that, crosspatch .
6 Don't you mind the old crosspatch .
7 Does Mrs. Bracken or that crosspatch Miss Adams or the weepin' willow, Mrs. Willoughby, know she isn't eleven?
8 If that old crosspatch Rebecca says 'My goodness' thirty times till four o'clock I'll fetch a tobacco worm and put it in her bonnet.
9 Then her mind crosspatched , and knowledge was connected to emotion.
10 Now here is where I come in again - Queen Crosspatch - who is telling you this story.
11 I'll give her something better than art, Kate Crosspatch .
12 She screeches horribly and Marmaduke calls her "Miss Crosspatch . "
13 And then she said it louder, " Crosspatch ! "
14 "And every time you do old Witchy Crosspatch makes everything seem disagreeable!"
15 He called different buffalo by name; and designated the calves by descriptive terms, such as "Whiteface" and " Crosspatch . "
16 "I said crosspatch , " she faltered and waited bravely for the deluge.
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