Edgy vs Cranky - What's the difference?
edgy | cranky |
nervous, apprehensive
(entertainment/advertising jargon): creatively challenging; cutting edge; leading edge
(entertainment/advertising jargon) : on the edge between acceptable and offensive; pushing the boundaries of good taste; dodgy
(dated) irritable
(art) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
* Hazlitt
(of a knife or blade) sharp.
(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 edgy and cranky
is that edgy is nervous, apprehensive while cranky is (obsolete) weak, unwell.edgy
English
Adjective
(er)- an edgy temper
- An edgy style of sculpture.
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.