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Like a grouch
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crabby
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, in now-obsolete sense "crooked, gnarled, rough," from extended sense of crab (n.1) + -y (2). Meaning "disagreeable, sour, peevish" is attested from 1776, American English. Both senses were found earlier in crabbed .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ He's very crabby right now because he has a bad tooth. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And Nat was like a running sore, crabby , miserable. ▪ Without a happy and secure nest, you feel more than a little crabby .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. perversely irritable [syn: crabbed , cross , fussy , grouchy , grumpy , bad-tempered , ill-tempered ] [also: crabbiest , crabbier ]
Usage examples of crabby.
Through his tool, Clarry, the crabby attorney had delved into various matters more deeply than Howard Garnstead or Gale Marden supposed.
She waited while he went through the small ritual of writing the name and address in his order book in a large crabby hand.
He was a tall, narrow, disconsolate man who moved with a crabby listlessness.
Give him the crass, crabby, impersonal and efficient over the smiling, joking, easygoing and incompetent any day.
Then you can plan to spend time with a well-rested child in the morning, rather than a crabby, overtired one at night.
The children were restless now, and Liriel was becoming crabbier by the minute.
In fact, he was rumored to be the crabbiest county coroner in the entire state.
She was the nicest person Joey knew, the nicest he ever expected to know, and he was glad that he had her for a sister instead of that crabby, nasty Veronica Culp, who his best friend, Tommy Culp, had to share a house with.
So about three weeks ago we rented a truck and drove the hour or so up from Chicago, on 1-94, passing trucks carrying John Deeres, past the drug companies, Teledyne and Baxter and Abbott, beyond the Mars Cheese Castle and the Bong Recreation Area -- we'd tried twice in high school to steal that sign -- and flew through the crabby grey farms at the Illinois border and then over to Oconomowoc.
Right about the time she turned ninety, she got so crabby we threatened to withhold her sour mash whiskey if she didn't straighten up.