crabby

  • 1Crabby — Crab by ( b[y^]), a. Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing. Persius is crabby, because ancient. Marston. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 2crabby — index fractious, petulant Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 3crabby — 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

  • 4crabby — / 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

  • 5crabby — ► ADJECTIVE (crabbier, crabbiest) ▪ bad tempered; morose. DERIVATIVES crabbily adverb crabbiness noun …

    English terms dictionary

  • 6crabby — [krab′ē] adj. crabbier, crabbiest [see CRABBED] cross and complaining; peevish; ill tempered crabbily adv. crabbiness n …

    English World dictionary

  • 7crabby — 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

  • 8crabby — 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

  • 9crabby — 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

  • 10crabby — adjective (crabbier; est) Etymology: 4crab Date: 1599 cross, ill natured < a crabby recluse > …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

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