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Est. 1828
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'cranky'
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Words to Describe cranky

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Things cranky often describes ("cranky ________")

  • capital
  • nurse
  • guy
  • husband
  • horse
  • engines
  • board
  • ideas
  • teacher
  • lot
  • curmudgeon
  • ones
  • disposition
  • views
  • letters
  • car
  • engine
  • brutes
  • neighbors
  • look
  • kid
  • way
  • boss
  • customer
  • maid
  • child
  • temper
  • moods
  • uncle
  • children
  • friend
  • person
  • mother
  • girl
  • mind
  • judge
  • wife
  • cat
  • customers
  • personality
  • notion
  • inventor
  • notions
  • fellow
  • motor
  • parrot
  • canoe
  • self
  • kids
  • neighbor
  • letter
  • theories
  • canoes
  • ship
  • voice
  • nature
  • ways
  • women
  • character
  • behavior
  • individual
  • attitude
  • vessel
  • cuss
  • bachelor
  • mood
  • craft
  • lady
  • farmer
  • men
  • toddler
  • woman
  • boat
  • man
  • opinions
  • patient
  • baby
  • codger
  • sort
  • idea
  • boats
  • grandmother
  • infant
  • father
  • fathers
  • people
  • babies
  • machine
  • tone
  • thing

How cranky often is described ("________ cranky")

  • terrible
  • real
  • little
  • awful
  • own

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  • oversexed
  • grumbly
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