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Crabbed

/kɹæbd/

To fish for crabs.

📖 Definitions of "Crabbed"

verb
  1. 1

    To fish for crabs.

  2. 2

    To ruin.

  3. 3

    To complain.

  4. 4

    To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).

verb
  1. 1

    (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour

  2. 2

    To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.

  3. 3

    (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick

adjective
  1. 1

    Bad-tempered or cantankerous.

  2. 2

    Cramped, bent.

  3. 3

    (of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.

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