crabby

From crab +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹæb.i/

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• Rhymes: -æbi

crabby (comparative crabbier, superlative crabbiest)

1. Relating to or resembling crabs; crablike.
2. Abounding with crabs.
   • 2009, Holly Smith, Perth, Western Australia & the Outback, page 58:

     As for animal life, this is the "Crabbiest Place in the World," where 20 land and intertidal crabs range from tiny beach dwellers to the chunky robber crabs that crack coconuts with their massive claws.

3. Visibly irritated or annoyed; grouchy, irritable, in a foul mood; given to complaining or finding fault in an annoyed way.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "You're not crabby, are you?" "No, no, not at all. I think I'll go."

4. Crabbed; difficult or perplexing.

• ratty

• crabbily
• crabbiness

• crab
• crabbed
• crablike