Crabby

Definition: Crabby

Crabby

Adjective

1. Perversely irritable.

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

Date "crabby" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references)

Synonyms: Crabby

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.

Crosswords: Crabby

Where's the crabby scowl, the morbid gloom? (Angel; writing credit: Let�cia Dornelles)

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Books

• Boggin' For Buster Blue Crab : The Crabby Crustacean (reference)

• Born Crabby (reference)

• Crabby and Nabby: A Tale of Two Blue Crabs (Tell-Tale Nature Series, No 1) (reference)

• Crabby Gabby (Serendipity Book) (reference)

• Crabby Road: More Thoughts on Life from Maxine (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Crabby Appleton (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Expression using "crabby": crabby person. Additional references.

Albanian

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

Bulgarian 

кисел (acetous, acid, acidulated, acidulous, crabbed, disgruntled, grouchy, grumpy, humpy, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, livery, peeved, pettish, petulant, querulous, sour, tart, vinegar, vinegary), опак (cantankerous, contrary, cranky, cross-grained, perverse, rambunctious, restive, reverse, wayward, wrong). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�' (fractious, Peckish, touchy), �" (tough). (various references)

German

mürrisch (cantankerous, crotchety, crusty, dour, fractious, glum, glumly, grumpy, liverish, morose, morosely, peevish, sulky, sullen, sullenly, surly, testy). (various references)

Hungarian

zsémbes (churlish, cross-grained, crusty, currish, disgruntled, grouchy, grousing, gruff, grumbler, grumbling, grumpy, john blunt, like a bear with a sore head, nagging, shrewd, shrewish, snapper, snappish, surly, testy, vixenly). (various references)

Manx

granganagh (cantankerous, captious, cattish, catty, churlish, crabbed, crabbed of person, cross, cross annoyed, cynical, disagreeable, fractious, fretful, grumpy, ill-humoured, ill-natured, ill-tempered, niggly person, peevish, snappy), friogganagh (bad-tempered, bristly, cantankerous, echinoid, edgy, finned, finny, liverish, offended, prickly, ratty, setaceous, stickleback, touchy). (various references)

Norwegian

sur (acerbic, acetous, acid, bitter, dismal, grumpy, sour, tart). (various references)

Pig Latin

abbycray

Portuguese

ranzinza (brimstone, nagging, querulous), intratável (crab, crabbed, cross-grained, currish, fractious, intractable, kittle, restive, snappish, snappy, sullen, surly, unapproachable, uncompromising, unmanageable, unsociable), de mau humor (crossly, grouty, pettish, testily). (various references)

Romanian

ursuz (churlish, crabbed, crusty, gnarled, grumbler, grumbling, grumpy, morose, peevish, somber, sombre, sulky, sullen, sullenly, surly). (various references)

Russian 

раздражительный (apoplectic, bad tempered, bad-tempered, chippy, choleric, crab, crabbed, 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). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tvrdoglav (cross-grained, die hard, hard bitten, hardheaded, headstrong, heady, intractable, mulish, obstinate, opinionated, pigheaded, pig-headed, stiff necked, stubborn, willful), razdražljiv (grumpy, high strung, highly strung, irritable, jumpy, nervous, nervy, short tempered, techy, tetchy, waspish), nepristupačan (impervious, inaccessible, inapproachable, inknowable, unaffable, unapproachable, unavailable, unget-at-able, unpenetrable). (various references)

Spanish

osco. (various references)

Turkish

karman çorman (all mixed up, chaotic, confused, crabbed, higgledy-piggledy, messy, mussy, pell mell, pellmell, ragged, topsyturvy), huysuz (acrimonious, as cross as two sticks, bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, 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, crabbed), aksi (adverse, awkward, bad tempered, bilious, bloody minded, cantankerous, contra, contra-, contrary, counter, crabbed, 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

багатий на крабів, дратівливий (bilious, capernoited, crabbed, criss cross, exasperating, fretful, grumpy, hoity toity, impatient, irascible, irritable, petulant, short tempered, spleenful, tetchy, warm), дразливий (choleric, crusty, fractious, huffish, pettish, quick tempered, sore, splenic, techy). (various references)

Misspellings

"Crabby" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Carbaby, Carbh, Carbi, Clabby, crabb, crabba, crabbe, crabbit, crabey, craby, Craobh, Cribby, Krabi, rebby, ribby, scrabby, scragboy. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cabby.

-2 letters: baby, barb, bray, carb, crab, racy.

-3 letters: aby, arb, arc, bar, bay, bra, cab, car, cay, cry, ray, rya, yar.

-4 letters: ab, ar, ay, ba, by, ya.

+1 letter: crybaby.

+2 letters: crabbily, scrabbly.

+3 letters: crybabies.

+4 letters: absorbancy, absorbency, blackberry.

+5 letters: jabberwocky.