Crabbish

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Somewhat sour or cross; crabby.

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

  2. 2
    crablike; resembling a crab, or crab

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

Etymology

From crab + -ish.

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