a. [f. CRACK + -Y.]
1. Having cracks or fractures; prone to crack.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Slate, That sort of Stone is not cracky, but firm and good.
1880. Blackmore, Mary Anerley, I. xvii. 278. White buckled walls, and cracky lintels.
2. Somewhat cracked in intellect; crazy.
1854. H. Strickland, Travel Thoughts, 99. His intellect is to be used by the world, but not the man worshipped, let cracky Carlyle say what he will.
1855. Robinson, Whitby Gloss., s.v., A bit cracky, partially crazy.
3. Abounding in conversation. north., chiefly Sc.
1801. H. Macneill, Poems, II. 51. To mak us a’ sae pleas’d and cracky.
1825. Ld. Cockburn, Mem., 355. They were rather civil, and very cracky creatures.
