crabbish

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adjective

Somewhat sour or cross; crabby.

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

adjectivecrabbish (comparative more crabbish, superlative most crabbish)

comparative more crabbish · superlative most crabbish

  1. Somewhat sour or cross; crabby.

    [He] regardes not the whips of the moste crabbish Satyristes.

    1606, Thomas Dekker, The Seven Deadly Sinnes of London
  2. crablike; resembling a crab, or crab

Origin

From crab + -ish.

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APA

crabbish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crabbish

MLA

“crabbish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crabbish. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “crabbish,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crabbish.

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