crabbish

adj — 2 senses

crabbish

adj

Etymology From crab + -ish.

1

Somewhat sour or cross; crabby.

  • [He] regardes not the whips of the moste crabbish Satyristes.1606, Thomas Dekker, The Seven Deadly Sinnes of London:
2

crablike; resembling a crab, or crab

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