crabbish

English

Etymology

crab +‎ -ish

Adjective

crabbish (comparative more crabbish, superlative most crabbish)

  1. Somewhat sour or cross; crabby.
    • 1606, Thomas Dekker, The Seven Deadly Sinnes of London
      [He] regardes not the whips of the moste crabbish Satyristes.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for crabbish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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