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• Crabbed

  [krab-id] /ˈkræb ɪd/ adjective 1. grouchy; ill-natured; irritable; churlish. 2. perverse; contrary; obstinate. 3. hard to understand; intricate and obscure. 4. difficult to read or decipher, as handwriting. [krab] /kræb/ noun 1. any decapod crustacean of the suborder Brachyura, having the eyes on short stalks and a short, broad, more or less flattened body, the […]

• Crabber

  [krab-er] /ˈkræb ər/ noun 1. a person who catches . 2. a boat used in catching . /ˈkræbə/ noun 1. a crab fisherman 2. a boat used for crab-fishing

• Crabbers

  [krab-er] /ˈkræb ər/ noun 1. a person who catches . 2. a boat used in catching . [krab] /kræb/ noun 1. Informal. an ill-tempered or grouchy person. verb (used without object), crabbed, crabbing. 2. Informal. to find fault; complain. 3. (of hawks) to claw each other. verb (used with object), crabbed, crabbing. 4. Informal. to […]

• Crabbiness

  [krab-ee] /ˈkræb i/ adjective, crabbier, crabbiest. 1. Informal. grouchy; ill-natured; irritable; peevish. /ˈkræbɪ/ adjective -bier, -biest 1. bad-tempered adj. 1520s, in now-obsolete sense “crooked, gnarled, rough,” from extended sense of crab (n.1) + -y (2). Meaning “disagreeable, sour, peevish” is attested from 1776, American English. Both senses were found earlier in crabbed.

• Crabbing

  [krab-ing] /ˈkræb ɪŋ/ noun 1. the activity or occupation of fishing for . 2. a finishing process for reducing shrinkage and creasing of woolens and worsteds by stretching the fabric on a rotating cylinder and immersing in hot or, sometimes, cold water. 3. Aeronautics. the maneuver of heading partly into the wind to compensate for […]

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