What is the meaning of cranky?

Used of boats. ( inclined to heel over easily under sail)
- synonyms: crank, tender, tippy
Easily irritated or annoyed.
- usage: "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
- synonyms: fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy

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