Crank vs Crunk - What's the difference?
crank | crunk |
(slang) strange, weird, odd
sick; unwell; infirm
(nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast
Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
* Udall
* Mrs. Stowe
A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.(rfex)
The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
(archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
* (rfdate) Spenser:
(informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person
A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
* Carlyle
(informal, British, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave in unconventional ways.
* 1882 January 14, in Pall Mall Gazette :
(informal) An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
(US, slang) methamphetamine.
(rare) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
* (rfdate) Milton:
(obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.
* Burton
(slang) penis.
* 2013 , Reggie Chesterfield, Scoundrel (page 57)
To turn by means of a crank .
To turn a crank .
To turn.
To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
To be running at a high level of output or effort.
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(dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
* (rfdate) :
(obsolete) To cry like a crane.
* Withals (1608)
* The Country Man (poem)
Etymology, Crunk: etymology] at Wikipedia for further information.
There is no evidence of any connection with Yiddish or German , nor that it entered the Southern Black vernacular through the presence of European Jewish immigrant shopkeepers in black neighborhoods in cities such as Atlanta;
the phonetic similarity of the words is considered a coincidence.See (US, slang) crazy and drunk; according to the
* 2009 , (Kesha), (Tik Tok)
(US, slang) simultaneously intoxicated by marijuana and alcohol
* She is so fucking crunk right now.
(US, slang) of an absurd amount
* I have a crunk ton of homework tonight.
2004
2005}} * 1997, *: Get crunk, who u wit’? * 2002, Ashanti, Foolish/Unfoolish [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1401300308&id=S118tQIJlk0C&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&sig=zFEu5k2g2F2iOTw6Pq6uFFjJJw0] *: Let me tell you how I like it / If we’re all in a crowd / I like to be the one they single out / Let me tell you how to please me / Can you get it crunk and make my body jump? * 2003, Todd Boyd, The New H.N.I.C. [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0814798950&id=DgZ7YgzOJLUC&pg=PA6&lpg=PA6&sig=vd-YPaf83WWKyHA6Qf6anoaj7zc] *: Using their trademark southern dialect, the group tell others to “huss that fuss,” shut up and move, for they, Outkast, are the type of people who “make the club get crunk ,” in other words, make you get up and jam, with “crunk” here functioning as a sort of past perfect sense of the word “crank.” * 2005, Tamara Palmer, Country Fried Soul [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0879308575&id=t-sT4VyjTKUC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&sig=UeD7CSeKUITrrT1oAfvUhOI627w] *: I just saw how much of an influence Tupac had on Master P and No Limit, how much of an influence Tupac had on the whole city of Atlanta, Georgia, and on Houston, Texas, and just how much influence on influence on that whole ‘Bankhead [Bounce]’ and getting crunk certain songs of Makaveli had on that shit. A type of hip hop that originated in the southern United States.
* 2004, Crunk Classics [title] [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00029RT1M/]
* 2005, Michael Joseph Corcoran, All Over the Map [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0292709765&id=y5iPO9n4qtQC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&sig=Y6mP0dWw0IOpEwelSg4eXS2RkbM]
* 2005, Tamara Palmer, Country Fried Soul [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0879308575&id=t-sT4VyjTKUC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&sig=McTHEGgDgR6c2fFj-7mR-buBdaM]
* 2005, David Katz, Things a Man Should Never Do Past 30 [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1588164691&id=vY51QY7nhEQC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&sig=5CLasz94Yluq_TIXNXloM-tgM2I]
* 1997, Stephen King, "The Wizard and the Glass "
In us slang terms the difference between crank and crunk
is that crank is methamphetamine while crunk is of an absurd amount.As adjectives the difference between crank and crunk
is that crank is strange, weird, odd while crunk is crazy and drunk; according to the dictionary.As nouns the difference between crank and crunk
is that crank is a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion while crunk is a type of hip hop that originated in the southern United States.As verbs the difference between crank and crunk
is that crank is to turn by means of a crank while crunk is to cry like a crane.crank
English
Adjective
(er)- He who was, a little before, bedrid, was now crank and lusty.
- If you strong electioners did not think you were among the elect, you would not be so crank about it.
Noun
(en noun)- Yes, a crank was all it needed to start .
- So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks.
- Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank ! He chased my cat away.
- Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks .
- John is a crank because he talks to himself .
- Persons whom the Americans since Guiteau's trial have begun to designate as ‘cranks’ —that is to say, persons of disordered mind, in whom the itch of notoriety supplies the lack of any higher ambition.
- That crank next door thinks he's created cold fusion in his garage.
- Danny got abscesses from shooting all that bathtub crank .
- Quips, and cranks , and wanton wiles.
- Thou art a counterfeit crank , a cheater.
- It was going to be hard not to blow with a girl like her sucking on his crank .
Synonyms
* See also .Verb
(en verb)- Motorists had to crank their engine by hand.
- He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
- He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank .
- I turn the key and crank the engine; yet it doesn't turn over
- Crank it up!
- Quit cranking about your spilt milk!
- By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking .
- See how this river comes me cranking in.
Derived terms
* crank axle * crank call * crankcase * crank out * crankpin * crank pin * crank shaft * crankstart * crank start * crank up * crank wheel * cranky * turn someone's crankcrunk
English
Etymology 1
Compare Icelandic krnka to croak.Verb
(en verb)- The crane crunketh .
- The crunking crane heard high amongst the clouds.
Etymology 2
“high on marijuana and drunk (on alcohol) at the same time”. Coined Southern US late-1980s, in original sense of “rowdy, high energy out-of-control behavior by a crowd at Southern night clubs”.Miller, Matt: "Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the U.S. South, 1997-2007]".Popularized by its use in the (fusion genre) of (crunk) music in the 1990s and especially early 2000s. In this context, first used in music lyrics and notably popularized by '' (''Get Crunk, Who [are] You With[?]: The Album )."Lil Jon crunks up the volume", NY Times, November 28, 2004 See [[w:crunk
this LanguageLog postfor information on the high probability of chance similarity among languages.
Alternative forms
* krunkAdjective
(er)Double-Tongued Word Wrester] dictionary, [http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/crunk/ good, phat, fine
- I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk
- Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk
- Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk
Quotations
{{timeline , 1900s=1997 , 2000s=20032004
2005}} * 1997, *: Get crunk, who u wit’? * 2002, Ashanti, Foolish/Unfoolish [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1401300308&id=S118tQIJlk0C&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&sig=zFEu5k2g2F2iOTw6Pq6uFFjJJw0] *: Let me tell you how I like it / If we’re all in a crowd / I like to be the one they single out / Let me tell you how to please me / Can you get it crunk and make my body jump? * 2003, Todd Boyd, The New H.N.I.C. [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0814798950&id=DgZ7YgzOJLUC&pg=PA6&lpg=PA6&sig=vd-YPaf83WWKyHA6Qf6anoaj7zc] *: Using their trademark southern dialect, the group tell others to “huss that fuss,” shut up and move, for they, Outkast, are the type of people who “make the club get crunk ,” in other words, make you get up and jam, with “crunk” here functioning as a sort of past perfect sense of the word “crank.” * 2005, Tamara Palmer, Country Fried Soul [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0879308575&id=t-sT4VyjTKUC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&sig=UeD7CSeKUITrrT1oAfvUhOI627w] *: I just saw how much of an influence Tupac had on Master P and No Limit, how much of an influence Tupac had on the whole city of Atlanta, Georgia, and on Houston, Texas, and just how much influence on influence on that whole ‘Bankhead [Bounce]’ and getting crunk certain songs of Makaveli had on that shit.
Noun
(-)- As Houston rap became a national sensation, spinning off into the “crunk ” scene, it was hard to believe that just ten years earlier, the only Texas rap acts of any note were Donald “The D.O.C.” Curry, the Dallasite who hooked up with Dr. Dre and the N.W.A. crew, and the Geto Boys, who set out to make West Coast gangstas come off like Young MC.
- On Slanguistics,'' a special on the MTV2 cable network, Andre 3000 offerred a succinct analogy for crunk.''' “What punk was to rock,” he explains, “' crunk is to rap.”
- Use a “crunk ” song for his cell-phone ring.
- "...talking that stupid crunk' of theirs." There was no proper word for the dialect of the Mejic Vaqueros, but "' crunk " served well enough among the Barony's higher-born citizens.
