crabbed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹæbd/
• Rhymes: -æbd

Adjective

crabbed (comparative more crabbed, superlative most crabbed)

1. Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
2. 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;

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

Verb

crabbed

1. simple past tense and past participle of crab