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Tetchy vs Cranky - What's the difference?

tetchy | cranky |

As adjectives the difference between tetchy and cranky

is that tetchy is easily annoyed or irritated; peevish, testy or irascible while cranky is (obsolete) weak, unwell.

tetchy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Easily annoyed or irritated; peevish, testy or irascible
  • * 1592 , (William Shakespeare), (Romeo and Juliette), , (Nurse speaking, spelling modernized):
    • When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple
    Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,
    To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!

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    cranky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (obsolete) Weak, unwell.
  • Not in good working condition; shaky.
  • * 1914 , '', ''The River of Doubt ,
    • 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.
  • Grouchy, irritable; easily upset.
    • He got home from a long day at work tired and cranky .
  • Not in perfect mental working order; eccentric, peculiar.
  • * 1934 December, ,
    • 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.
  • (archaic) Full of spirit; spirited.