Etymology

crabbedly

C3R1A1B3B3E1D2L1Y4

Today it means: In a crabbed manner. Full definition →

Middle English crabbidly
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Middle English · inherited fromcrabbidly
  2. English todaycrabbedly

From Middle English crabbidly; equivalent to crabbed + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.