cranky

cranky

Irritable; in a foul mood. Billy needs to take a nap now so that he's not cranky at the birthday party.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cranky

mod. irritable; fretful. Don’t be cranky. We’re almost there.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • on one's
  • on someone's
  • (Have you) been OK?
  • pillow-biter
  • out of one's
  • (I've) got to go
  • #dead
  • save someone's skin
  • (something) blows
  • other than
References in periodicals archive
Dementia, too, makes people cranky, sometimes even aggressive and violent.
Ronnie needs someone to play and it's quite clear there is not one single player on the 128-member pro tour that will ever trust Mr O'Sullivan and his rather cranky schemes."
"I should have thought of your most elegant solution: 'an old, cranky real cyclist named Fred,'" he said.
Then try the Three Cranky Women's new Slap Board Silly: Outrageous fun with music concepts!
Cranky George describes Misery Road as a song with a country flair and says the song wears its emotions on the sleeve.
"If we get too many days without rain," Ketchikan sculptor Lee Wallace said, "people get cranky."
SATURDAY'S SOLUTION: ACROSS - 1 Apropos; 5 Aspic; Kin; 9 Obverse; Grain; 11 Torso; Ebonite; 15 Ogre; 17 Cranky; Abbess; 22 Blue; 24 Amputee; Rites; 29 Floor; Swaying; 31 32 Ready; 33 Sweetly.
CLEOPATRA Film4 2.25PM Elizabeth Taylor stars as a cranky Cleopatra, Richard Burton a bored Antony and Rex Harrison as a sniffy Caesar (he replaced Peter Finch six months into shooting).
Naum Kotevski comments for Utrinski vesnik that SDSM is now persistently running from the syntagma "shadow government." Nevertheless, it is not good when an opposition is invisible, cranky, satanized in the media and pushed to a corner and it is not good when it only criticizes while not offering alternative solutions.
When it comes to the new Pro Series Cranky Tree Steps from Cranky Hunt'n Gear, that's truly all there is to it.
There was a backlog of cars trying to get out and kids were getting cranky in the back.
Drew." In this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5CvqXjp87-s#!) video , which can be viewed below, Honey Boo Boo sleeps to avoid being asked questions by the celebrity addiction specialists and shows her cranky side.
FRIENDS, there are mere days left with which to exercise your right to be cranky.
of Altoona, PA has selected the LadderPort Ladder Receiver (Patent Pending) and Cranky Portable Winch (Patent Pending) system for installation on their convenience store locations.
Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder's ability to lasso the Simon Wiesenthal Center into accusing Washington City Paper of anti-Semitism for the image to the left has been one of the strangest things about the whole affair, which has seen a multibillionaire sue a weekly alternative for its gadfly sportswriter Dave McKenna's brilliant polemic, "The Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder." The charge is absurd, as other Jewish groups acknowledge (the image is plainly a juvenile scribbling, not a conjuring of medieval stereotypes concerning Jewish perfidiousness).