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crabbish

adj

Etymology

From crab + -ish.

  1. inherited from *krabbô✻
  2. inherited from *krabbō✻
  3. inherited from crabba — “crab; crayfish; cancer”
  4. inherited from crabbe
  5. suffixed as crabbish — “crab + ish”

Definitions

  1. Somewhat sour or cross

    Somewhat sour or cross; crabby.

    • [He] regardes not the whips of the moste crabbish Satyristes.

  2. crablike

    crablike; resembling a crab, or crab

The neighborhood

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