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Crabbiness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being crabby; sour or bad-tempered. uncountable

    "Crab apples [...] when you bite into one, it reveals a fairly sour taste. Cook them and they lose that crabbiness, becoming as sweet as any standard apple."

  2. 2
    a disposition to be ill-tempered wordnet

Etymology

From crabby + -ness.

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