- crabby
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adjective
(crabbier; -est)
Etymology: 4crab
Date: 1599
cross, ill-natured <a crabby recluse>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
crabby
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Crabby — Crab by ( b[y^]), a. Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing. Persius is crabby, because ancient. Marston. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
crabby — index fractious, petulant Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
crabby — 1520s, in now obsolete sense crooked, gnarled, rough, from extended sense of CRAB (Cf. crab) + Y (Cf. y) (2). Meaning disagreeable, sour, peevish is attested from 1776, Amer.Eng. Both senses were found earlier in CRABBED (Cf. crabbed) … Etymology dictionary
crabby — / crabbed [adj] in a bad mood acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky*, cross, crotchety, crusty*, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy*, harsh, huffy, ill humored … New thesaurus
crabby — ► ADJECTIVE (crabbier, crabbiest) ▪ bad tempered; morose. DERIVATIVES crabbily adverb crabbiness noun … English terms dictionary
crabby — [krab′ē] adj. crabbier, crabbiest [see CRABBED] cross and complaining; peevish; ill tempered crabbily adv. crabbiness n … English World dictionary
crabby — adjective informal someone who is crabby easily becomes annoyed about unimportant things; bad tempered: a rather crabby old man | I was feeling crabby … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
crabby — crab|by [ˈkræbi] adj easily annoyed by unimportant things = ↑bad tempered ▪ a crabby old man ▪ You re a bit crabby this morning … Dictionary of contemporary English
crabby — UK [ˈkræbɪ] / US adjective Word forms crabby : adjective crabby comparative crabbier superlative crabbiest easily annoyed by unimportant things Derived word: crabbiness noun uncountable … English dictionary
crabby — [[t]kræ̱bi[/t]] ADJ GRADED Someone who is crabby is bad tempered and unpleasant to people. [INFORMAL] … English dictionary
