| English Dictionary |
CRABBY (crabbier, crabbiest)
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Irregular inflected forms: crabbier , crabbiest
, crabbiest Dictionary entry overview: What does crabby mean?
• CRABBY (adjective)
The adjective CRABBY has 1 sense:
1. annoyed and irritable
Familiarity information: CRABBY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Comparative: crabbier
Superlative: crabbiest
Superlative: crabbiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annoyed and irritable
Synonyms:
bad-tempered; crabbed; crabby; cross; fussy; grouchy; grumpy; ill-tempered
Similar:
ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition)
Derivation:
crab (a quarrelsome grouch)
crabbiness (a disposition to be ill-tempered)
Context examples
You're not crabby, are you?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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