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crabbish

crabbish adjective: somewhat sour or cross; crabby.

Adjective

crabbish (comparative more crabbish, superlative most crabbish)

  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

Forms of crabbish

comparativemore crabbish
superlativemost crabbish

Origin of crabbish

From crab + -ish.

Questions about crabbish

What does crabbish mean?
Crabbish means somewhat sour or cross; crabby.
What part of speech is crabbish?
Crabbish is an adjective.

Words near crabbish in the dictionary

  1. crabbifying
  2. crabbily
  3. crabbiness
  4. crabbing
  5. crabbings
  6. crabbish
  7. crabbit
  8. crabble
  9. crabbles
  10. Crabbs
  11. crabburger

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