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crabble

crabble verb: to creep, crawl, or clamber, like a crab.

Verb

crabble (third-person singular simple present crabbles, present participle crabbling, simple past and past participle crabbled)

  1. (intransitive) To creep, crawl, or clamber, like a crab
    • His gray shape was a bandy legged bug crabbling up the dark cobblestones.2014, Darusha Wehm, Gary Cahill, Ian Creasey, Plan B Volume III: a mystery and crime anthology
    • The chameleon crabbled to the middle of the coffee table and defecated.2016, Edward Ahern, Capricious Visions

Forms of crabble

third-person singular presentcrabbles
present participlecrabbling
past participlecrabbled
pastcrabbled

Origin of crabble

From crab + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare English crawl, of similar formation. Compare also Saterland Frisian krabbelje, Dutch krabbelen, German krabbeln.

Words that rhyme with crabble

Questions about crabble

What does crabble mean?
Crabble means to creep, crawl, or clamber, like a crab.
What part of speech is crabble?
Crabble is a verb.
What is the past tense of crabble?
The past tense of crabble is crabbled.

Words near crabble in the dictionary

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

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