Meaning

4 senses
  1. Relating to or resembling crabs; crablike.

  2. Abounding with crabs.

  3. Visibly irritated or annoyed; grouchy, irritable, in a foul mood; given to complaining or finding fault in an annoyed way.

    annoyed and irritable

  4. Crabbed; difficult or perplexing.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Tom has been really crabby today.

  2. I'm feeling crabby.

    Я роздратований. — deniko

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  3. You're being one crabby cracker this morning. Did you get enough sleep?

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Translations

4 languages

Forms

crabbier, crabbiest
Comparativecrabbier Lesson
Superlativecrabbiest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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