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Quotation dates: 1786, 1868-1910
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CRANKOUS, adj. Fretful, captious. [′krɑŋkəs]Sc.(E) 1868 D. M. Ogilvy Willie Wabster's Wooing (1873) 28:
I ne'er was ca'd a crankous kimmer.Ags. 1910 J. Lee Poems 27:
They'll no come in! Lave them ootside! Crankous craiters!Ayr. 1786 Burns Author's Earnest Cry xvi.:
This while she's been in crankous mood, Her lost Militia fir'd her bluid.
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