Crabbed

Definition: Crabbed

Crabbed

Adjective

1. Perversely irritable.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "crabbed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Crabbed

Difficulty

Difficult to deal with, hard to deal with; ill-conditioned, crabbed, crabby; not to be handled with kid gloves, not made with rose water.

Discourtesy

Taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious; snarling; Verb: surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen; a; peevish; (irascible).

Obscurity

Adjective: obscure; Noun: crabbed, involved, confused.

Sullenness

Adjective: sullen, sulky; ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill-disposed; grouty; in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor; out of temper, out of humor; knaggy, torvous, crusty, crabbed; sour, sour as a crab; surly; (discourteous).

Unintelligibility

Indefinite, garbled; (indistinct); perplexed; (confused); undetermined, vague, loose, ambiguous; mysterious; mystic, mystical; acroamatic, acroamatical; metempirical; transcendental; occult, recondite, abstruse, crabbed.

Writing

Cacography, griffonage, barbouillage; bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand; scribble; Verb: pattes de mouche; ill-formed letters; pothooks and hangers.

Crosswords: Crabbed

Clumsy work, crabbed worker.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "crabbed": write in a crabbed hand. Additional references.

Albanian

i zemëruar (angry, biliary, crabby, crusty, embittered, indignant, mad, rampant, Wroth), i irritueshëm. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نكد المزاج (morose), ‏سيئ الطبع, ‏صعب الإرضاء (choosey, dainty, difficult, fidgety, finical). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свадлив (cantankerous, contentious, crusty, cursed, quarrelsome, rowdy, shrewish, termagant, ugly, vixenish), кисел (acetous, acid, acidulated, acidulous, crabby, disgruntled, grouchy, grumpy, humpy, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, livery, peeved, pettish, petulant, querulous, sour, tart, vinegar, vinegary), неразбран (unintelligible, unreadable, wrongheaded), нечетлив (cramped, illegible, indecipherable, niggling, unreadable). (various references)

Chinese 

捉蟹. (various references)

Czech

nevrlý (bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, crusty, gruff, grumpy, ill tempered, morose, petulant, querulous, snappy, sour, splenetic, sullen, surly), mrzutý (annoying, awkward, bad tempered, chuff, cranky, cross, crusty, dumpish, frumpish, glum, grouchy, joyless, Moody, out of temper, peevish, pettish, rugged, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, untoward, vexatious), mrzoutský (cantankerous, crotchety, crusty, morose, querulous), morousovitý, kostrbatý (gritty, sprawling, uneven). (various references)

French

revêche, hargneux (crusty), grincheux (cross-patch, crotchety). (various references)

German

nörgelte (carped, caviled, grizzled). (various references)

Greek 

στριμμένοσ (captious, churlish, crotchety, cussed, squiggly, surly), στυφνόσ, γκρινιάρησ (cantankerous, fault finder, fussy, grouch, grouchy, growler, mutterer, nagger, pettish, snarler, snarling, sorehead), ξυνόσ (sour), δύστροποσ (bloody minded, cantankerous, captious, cranky, cross, fretful, grouch, illtempered, morose, peevish, pettish, recalcitrant, shrewish, splenetic, splenish, sullen, surly, testy, untoward, vixenish, waspish, wayward). (various references)

Hebrew 

קש�" לפע� וח. (various references)

Hungarian

nehezen olvasható, mogorva (as cross as two sticks, bearish, cheerless, criss cross, crusty, disagreeable, disgruntled, grim, grouchy, grousing, gruff, have the sullens, ill tempered, like a bear with a sore head, morose, pouty, saturnine, snapping, snuffy, somber, sulky, sullen, surly, testy). (various references)

Indonesian

marah (angry, chafe, crusty, indignant, irate, mad, shirty, wrathful, wroth). (various references)

Italian

sgarbato (churlish, ill mannered, impolite, rude), ruvido (coarse, harsh, rough, rugged, scabrous, scraggy, scratchy, shaggy), bisbetico (cantankerous, ill-humored, ill-humoured, shrewish, snappish), acido (acetous, acid, acidic, acids, acrid, sour, tart). (various references)

Korean 

게를 잡�". (various references)

Manx

granganagh (cantankerous, captious, cattish, catty, churlish, crabbed of person, crabby, cross, cross annoyed, cynical, disagreeable, fractious, fretful, grumpy, ill-humoured, ill-natured, ill-tempered, niggly person, peevish, snappy), do-lhaih (crabbed writing, indecipherable). (various references)

Pig Latin

abbedcray

Portuguese

complicado (abstract, complex, complicated, crab, elaborate, intricate, knotted, knotty, many-sided, puzzling, tricky), irritável (bilious, crab, crusty, edgy, fretful, irascible, irritable, liver-colored, liver-coloured, livery, nervous, nervy, petulant, shirty, short-tempered, techy, testy, tetchy, touchy, waspish), intricado (crab, intricate, mazy), intratável (crab, crabby, cross-grained, currish, fractious, intractable, kittle, restive, snappish, snappy, sullen, surly, unapproachable, uncompromising, unmanageable, unsociable), desagradável (bad, beastly, bleak, brackish, desagreeable, disagreeable, disgusting, dismal, displeasing, distasteful, dreadful, dreary, fearful, forbidding, foul, frightful, ghastly, grisly, horrible, invidious, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, seamy, ugly, uncomfortable, uncongenial, undesirable, ungrateful, unlovely, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unthankful, untoward, unwelcome, unwished), avinagrado (crab, vinegary). (various references)

Romanian

confuz (abashed, addle, bewildered, blurred, chaotic, confused, dim, embarrassed, faint, gloomily, hazy, hugger mugger, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, stodgy, turbid, vague, washy, wrongheaded), ursuz (churlish, crabby, crusty, gnarled, grumbler, grumbling, grumpy, morose, peevish, somber, sombre, sulky, sullen, sullenly, surly), rebarbativ (grim, unprepossessing), oţãrât (angry, enraged, furious, sulky, sullen, sullenly), neciteţ (illegible, illegibly, indecipherable, loose), morocãnos (adust, cross-grained, crusty, grouty, gruff, grumbling, grumbly, grumpish, grumpy, ill tempered, morose, morosely, peevish, snuffy, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, tetchy), iritabil (choleric, combustible, crusty, excitable, fretful, gusty, inflammable, irascible, irritable, jumpy, petulaht, petulant, testy, tetchy, ticklish, waspy), ilizibil (illegible, unreadable), greu de înţeles (abstruse), arţãgos (cantankerous, contradictious, cross-grained, crusty, currish, fractious, gruff, peevish, pettish, quarrelsome, snappy), acru (acerb, acetous, acid, acidulous, acre, acrid, acrimonious, cross, green, peevish, sharp, sour, sourly, sulky, surly, tart, testy, touchy, unripe, vinegarish), acrit (acidulated, damaged, grumpy, soured). (various references)

Russian 

сердитый (angry, cross, grouty, grumpy, irate, rambunctious, rusty, shirty, snuffy, sour, surly), раздражительный (apoplectic, bad tempered, bad-tempered, chippy, choleric, crab, crabby, criss cross, crusty, doggish, fractious, fretful, grouty, grumpy, huffish, huffy, irascible, irritable, livery, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, quick tempered, quicktempered, rambunctious, rusty, short tempered, snappish, snooty, snuffy, spleenful, splenetic, testy, touchy), недовольный (acidulated, discontent, discontented, disgruntled, displeased, malcontent, non-content, pouter, querulous, sorehead, uncontented, unpleased). (various references)

Spanish

malhumorado (bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, crabby, cross, disagreeable, disgruntled, fractious, glum, grouchy, grumpy, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, low-spirited, moody, morose, mumpish, peevish, pettish, petulant, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly), indescifrable (indecipherable, undecipherable), apretado (clasped, constrained, cramped, jammed, pressed, serried, tight, tighten). (various references)

Swedish

vresig (cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, disagreeable, grouchy, gruff, grumpy, ill-humored, ill-humoured, morose, peevish, perverse, ratty, sulky, vinegary), sur (acid, cranky, cross, crotchety, dismal, grouchy, Moody, morose, ratty, sharp, shirty, sour, surly, wet), retlig (fretful, fretting, ill tempered, irritable, moody, peevish, pettish, snappy, snuffy, testy, touchy, waspish), oläslig (illegible, indecipherable, unreadable), krafsig, gnetig (cramped). (various references)

Turkish

ters (acrimonious, adverse, agley, Amiss, awkward, awry, backward, backwards, bad tempered, bloody minded, churlish, contradictory, contrary, converse, counter, cranky, curt, cussed, dour, face down, fractious, fretful, Froward, frowning, grumpy, ill natured, illegitimate, indecorous, inimical, inverse, inversely, inverted, mis-, negative, off, opposing, opposite, perverse, retro-, reverse, snuffy, sub-, unfavorable, unfavourable, upside down, versed, wayward, wrong, wrongly), okunaksız (blind, blinkered, cramped, hieroglyphic, illegible, unreadable), karman çorman (all mixed up, chaotic, confused, crabby, higgledy-piggledy, messy, mussy, pell mell, pellmell, ragged, topsyturvy), kargacık burgacık (crooked, scratchy, twisted), huysuz (acrimonious, as cross as two sticks, bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, churlish, crabby, crank, cranky, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, crusty, cursed, difficult, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, farouche, fractious, fretful, gnarled, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, mean, Moody, out of humour, out of sorts, peeved, peevish, peppery, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quarrelsome, querulous, ratty, rusty, shirty, snappish, spleenful, spleenish, splenetic, stroppy, sulky, surly, tetchy, thrawn, ugly, untoward, vicious, vixenish, waspish, wildcat, wrongheaded), darmadağın (cluttered, crabby), aksi (adverse, awkward, bad tempered, bilious, bloody minded, cantankerous, contra, contra-, contrary, counter, crabby, cross, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, doggish, dour, evil, fractious, fretful, Froward, gruff, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, inverse, negatory, opposite, peevish, perverse, petulant, recalcitrant, refractory, reverse, shirty, snappish, snuffy, spleenful, spleenish, stroppy, stubborn, sullen, surly, tart, testy, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, wrongheaded). (various references)

Ukrainian

сердитий (angry, cross-grained, grouty, irate, porky, rambunctious, roily, shirty, sulky), кострубатий, нерозбірливий (cramped, illegible, indecipherable, niggling, obscure, unreadable), нечіткий (ambiguous, amorphous, blurred, cramped, illegible, nubilous, obscure), буркотливий (acidulated, acidulous, capernoited, criss cross, cross-grained, currish, fumbling, grouchy, nagging, sourish, testy), дратівливий (bilious, capernoited, crabby, criss cross, exasperating, fretful, grumpy, hoity toity, impatient, irascible, irritable, petulant, short tempered, spleenful, tetchy, warm). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lằng nhằng, hay gắt gỏng; chua chát khó đọc lúng túng, hay c� u nh� u (peevish). (various references)

Welsh

crebachlyd (wrinkled). (various references)

Cancer, Cancridae, Chaceon maritae, Geryon quinquedens, Scylla serrata. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "crabbed": crabbedness, crabbednesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Crabbed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cabbed, cabbied, carabid, crabba, crabbe, Crabbes, crabbit, crabe, crabey, crambed, cranbeads, Cribben. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: barbed, braced, cabbed, dabber.

-2 letters: acerb, acred, arced, ardeb, barbe, barde, bared, beard, brace, bread, caber, cadre, cared, cedar, debar, raced.

-3 letters: abbe, abed, aced, acre, babe, bade, barb, bard, bare, bead, bear, brad, brae, bred, cade, carb, card, care, crab, dace, darb, dare, dear, drab, race, read.

-4 letters: ace, arb, arc, are, bad.

+2 letters: barbecued, clabbered, scrabbled.

+3 letters: barebacked, bedchamber, breadcrumb, scabbarded.

+4 letters: bedchambers, blackbirded, blackbirder, breadcrumbs, crabbedness, describable.

+5 letters: blackbirders, hardscrabble.