What is "crabbedness"

Crabbed \Crab"bed\ (kr?b"b?d), a. [See Crab,n.]

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.
   --Shak.

2. Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.

3. Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author. ``Crabbed eloquence.''
   --Chaucer.

   How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose.
   --Milton.

4. Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting. -- Crab"bed*ly, adv. -- Crab"bed*ness, n.

n. The state or quality of being crabbed.

n. a disposition to be ill tempered [syn: crabbiness, crossness]