cranky

Modifies a noun

• idea: Best wishes, Patsy XX Posted by John Morrison Sunday, February 12, 2006 Quite right: not cranky ideas at all.
• man: She is a great woman who puts up with a great deal from this cranky old man!
• child: Everyone who has a small child will know how cranky children become when they are sick.
• theory: There are the mentally unbalanced and the purveyors of numerous cranky theories, each of which purports to explain nearly all UFO reports.

Modifying Another Word

• very: Yet very cranky too, not understanding why he can't go play.
• so: On my return I apologized for being so cranky and I guess the strain of the last couple of days was showing!
• rather: A lot of parents made a big fuss about this as vegetarianism was still thought of as rather cranky and inadequate.
• really: Thank deity we got through or I'd be really cranky.
• slightly: Organic food has gone from being seen as a slightly cranky obsession of an eccentric few and touched the mainstream.
• too: She didn't want to climb the stairs and she was too cranky for me to bother carrying.

Used with adjective complement

• get: NEVER play with me, not even if I beg you, I get really cranky if I lose!
• become: Jenn, who teaches her children at home, would become cranky, tired and irritable during the day.