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crabbiness

noun

Etymology

From crabby + -ness.

  1. inherited from *krabbô✻
  2. inherited from *krabbō✻
  3. inherited from crabba — “crab; crayfish; cancer”
  4. inherited from crabbe
  5. suffixed as crabby — “crab + y”
  6. suffixed as crabbiness — “crabby + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of being crabby

    The state of being crabby; sour or bad-tempered.

    • Crab apples [...] when you bite into one, it reveals a fairly sour taste. Cook them and they lose that crabbiness, becoming as sweet as any standard apple.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for crabbiness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA