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▪ I. crabby, a.1|ˈkræbɪ|
[f. crab n.1 + -y1.]
1. Crab-like; † with sidelong gait (obs.).
1583Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 84 It wil be saulfer too passe thee countrie Pachynus, With leasure lingring, and far streicts crabbye to circle. 1886R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log 20 Some old fisherman's crabby paw dodging round the bottom of a crab-pot.
2. Abounding in crabs.
1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 128 Which after we called Crabby cove..for that all the water was full of a small kinde of redd crabbes.
▪ II. crabby, a.2|ˈkræbɪ|
[f. crab n.2 + -y1.]
†1. = crabbed 5, 6, 7. Obs.
1550Coverdale Spir. Perle vi. 71 So doth God lop and hewe the crabby old Adam with the crosse. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 134 The most combersome and crabby treatie of Freewill. 1599Marston Sco. Villanie 170 Persius is crabby, because auntient, and his ierkes..dusky.
2. = crabbed 1, 9.
1776Paine Com. Sense App. (1791) 86 The narrow and crabby spirit of a despairing political party. 1850M. Margoliouth Pilgr. Land of Fathers II. 61 We must have looked very crabby when we made those rude speeches. 1891Atkinson Last of Giant-Killers 101 The crabby, surly, savage old giant. |