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Webster 1913 Edition
Crabbed
1.
Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; – applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.
Crabbed
age and youth can not live together. Shakespeare
2.
Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; – applied to things;
as, a
. crabbed
taste3.
Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying;
“Crabbed eloquence.” as, a
. crabbed
authorChaucer.
How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh and
– Not harsh and
crabbed
, as dull fools suppose. Milton.
Crab′bed-ly
, adv.
Crab′bed-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Crabbed
CRABBED
,Adj.
1.
Rough; harsh; austere; sour; peevish; morose; cynical; applied to the temper.2.
Rough; harsh; applied to things.3.
Difficult; perplexing; as a crabbed author or subject.Definition 2024
crabbed
crabbed
English
Adjective
crabbed (comparative more crabbed, superlative most crabbed)
- Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
- Cramped, bent.
- 1800(?) Robert Southey, Winter
- A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee,
- Old Winter, with a rugged beard as grey
- As the long moss upon the apple-tree;
- 1800(?) Robert Southey, Winter
- (of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
Translations
bad-tempered or cantankerous
(of handwriting) crowded together and difficult to read
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Derived terms
Verb
crabbed
- simple past tense and past participle of crab