cracky
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Smit-McPhee, now 16, worked on the film in 2010 while his voice was breaking and becoming "really cracky and weird."
From Reuters • Aug. 15, 2012
All this is doled out as solemnly as a lantern-slide lecture in German philosophy, with the actors uneasily unsure whether they are really U.S. dirt farmers, by cracky, or Leibnitzian particles in a transcendental ether.
From Time Magazine Archive
It wouldn’t shoot, but, by cracky, it worked!”
From Radio Boys Loyalty Bill Brown Listens In by Whipple, Wayne
"You said something," I told him; "cracky, I wouldn't want to be a what-is-it."
From Roy Blakely, Pathfinder by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
Ye’re a fine, cracky, neebourly body, Geordie, if ye wad just let me be.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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