Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Grouchy; ill-tempered.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Difficult; perplexing; crabbed; disagreeable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective visibly
irritated orannoyed ;grouchy ,irritable , in a foul mood; given tocomplaining or finding fault. - adjective
crabbed ; difficult, or perplexing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective annoyed and irritable
Etymologies
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Examples
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Crichton is the kind of person for whom the word crabby has taken on a whole new meaning.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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So my husband says (in crabby dad voice), “I think it’s time we took the wreath down because it’s attracting too much wildlife.”
My front door is giving birth « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009
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So my husband says (in crabby dad voice), “I think it’s time we took the wreath down because it’s attracting too much wildlife.”
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I know that J.D. calls the crabby one "Jo," but that's it.
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I also vividly recall the crabby waitress who rushed over to enforce the rules and spoil the fun, as the slot machine poured out what to my wide eyes was a river of shimmering silver.
Marketplace 2009
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I know that J.D. calls the crabby one "Jo," but that's it.
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Um, anyone else think it's a weird coincidence that "crabby" and "uterus" are right next to each other?
Cue Cards, Please? 2009
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If I am just "crabby" then I probably need to "send myself to my room" because if I go to the teacher's loungue or lunchroom I will probably say something that I wished I hadn't.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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If I am just "crabby" then I probably need to "send myself to my room" because if I go to the teacher's loungue or lunchroom I will probably say something that I wished I hadn't.
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Geez, you drive a few schoolchildren off your lawn with a sawed-off shotgun, and people start calling you "crabby".
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