Curmudgeon vs Cranky - What's the difference?
curmudgeon | cranky |
(archaic) A miser.
An ill-tempered (and frequently old) person full of stubborn ideas or opinions.
* 1996 , Jeet Heer, Gravitas ,
* 2006 , The New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/18/technology/circuits/19POGUE-EMAIL.html?ex=1179201600&en=f058e59799358d61&ei=5070]
* 2007 , The Times [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/modern_times/article1726275.ece]
(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.
In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between curmudgeon and cranky
is that curmudgeon is (archaic) a miser while cranky is (archaic) full of spirit; spirited.As a noun curmudgeon
is (archaic) a miser.As an adjective cranky is
(obsolete) weak, unwell.curmudgeon
English
Noun
(en noun)- There's a cranky curmudgeon working at the hospital who gives all the patients and other doctors flak.
- John Doe's old age and stubborn aversion to new ideas make him a curmudgeon of a candidate.
Autumn 1996
- After a while, as cultural debates became more polarized, the editorial tone of the New Criterion went from being charmingly curmudgeon to being bitterly shrill.
- How to Be a Curmudgeon on the Internet
- How should I respond, without appearing to be a curmudgeon ?
cranky
English
Adjective
(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.
