Clankier vs Crankier - What's the difference?
clankier | crankier |
(clanky)
Making a clanking metallic sound.
Providing audible indication of imminent mechanical failure.
(cranky)
(obsolete) Weak, unwell.
Not in good working condition; shaky.
* 1914 , '', ''The River of Doubt ,
Grouchy, irritable; easily upset.
Not in perfect mental working order; eccentric, peculiar.
* 1934 December, ,
(archaic) Full of spirit; spirited.
As adjectives the difference between clankier and crankier
is that clankier is (clanky) while crankier is (cranky).clankier
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(head)clanky
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(er)- My father's first car was a clanky old VW Beetle.
crankier
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(head)cranky
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(er)- 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.
- He got home from a long day at work tired and cranky .
- 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.