cracky n
   1895 Outing xxvii, p. 23 'Sartenly knowed as 'ow a rat ud feel wens [once] a crackey nipped aholt!' T 966-71 Bill went out, an' the cracky went out with un. Well the cracky start goin' around, well he was runnin' around, he'd run over five or six acres o' land in a day. 1986 FELTHAM 168 The dog was small as 'crackies' go [and] was coal black except for his four paws. 1987 JOHNSTON 61 Nick would smile, puff on his pipe and ask my father if he knew that he had a 'saucy crackie' for a wife.

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