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crabby

/ˈkɹæb.i/

crabby adjective: relating to or resembling crabs; crablike.

Adjective

crabby (comparative crabbier, superlative crabbiest)

  1. Relating to or resembling crabs; crablike.
  2. Abounding with crabs.
    • As for animal life, this is the "Crabbiest Place in the World," where 20 land and intertidal crabs range from tiny beach dwellers to the chunky robber crabs that crack coconuts with their massive claws.2009, Holly Smith, Perth, Western Australia & the Outback, page 58
  3. Visibly irritated or annoyed; grouchy, irritable, in a foul mood; given to complaining or finding fault in an annoyed way.
    • "You're not crabby, are you?" "No, no, not at all. I think I'll go."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
  4. Crabbed; difficult or perplexing.

crabby meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

crabby in Bengali

কাঁকড়া সংক্রান্ত, তার মতো, প্রচুর কাঁকড়া বিশিষ্ট, দৃশ্যত বিরক্ত, খিটখিটে, বদমেজাজী

crabby in Malayalam

irascible, irritable, cantankerous
പെട്ടെന്നു കോപിക്കുന്ന, മൂർഖസ്വഭാവമുള്ള, ദുഃസ്വഭാവമുള്ള, കലഹസ്വഭാവമുള്ള, കലിപ്രിയ, കലഹശീലമുള്ള

Synonyms of crabby

Forms of crabby

comparativecrabbier
superlativecrabbiest

Origin of crabby

From crab + -y.

Words formed from crabby

Words that rhyme with crabby

7 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about crabby

What does crabby mean?
Crabby means relating to or resembling crabs; crablike.
What is crabby in Bengali?
Crabby in Bengali is কাঁকড়া সংক্রান্ত, তার মতো, প্রচুর কাঁকড়া বিশিষ্ট. See Crabby meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is crabby?
Crabby is an adjective.
How do you pronounce crabby?
Crabby is pronounced /ˈkɹæb.i/.

Words near crabby in the dictionary

  1. crabble
  2. crabbles
  3. Crabbs
  4. crabburger
  5. crabburgers
  6. crabby
  7. crabcake
  8. crabcakes
  9. crabcore
  10. crabeater
  11. crabeater seal

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: crabby (page history and authors); crabby (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); crabby (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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