crabbed

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɹæbd/

Adjective

crabbed

1. Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene i:

     […] O, she is / Ten times more gentle than her father's crabb'd, / And he's composed of harshness.

2. Cramped, bent.
   • c. 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; […]

3. (of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.

Translations

• Russian: неразбо́рчивый

Verb

1. Simple past tense and past participle of crab

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