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单词 crabby
释义

crabby

/ˈkrabi /
adjective (crabbier, crabbiest)
Irritable: a rather crabby old man he was crabby at having his siesta interrupted...
  • I also feel vaguely crabby and irritable right now, and I'm not sure why.
  • One of the things we had to learn to deal with were crabby, irritable, and imperfect clients.
  • She was often kind of crabby and irritable overseas when she had to travel with him.

Synonyms

irritable, fractious, fretful, cross, petulant, pettish, crabbed, crotchety, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, miserable, morose, peppery, on edge, edgy, impatient, complaining, querulous;
bitter, moody, in a bad mood, grumpy, huffy, scratchy, out of sorts, out of temper, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, peevish, sullen, surly, sulky, sour, churlish, touchy, testy, tetchy, snappish, waspish, prickly, crusty, bilious, liverish, dyspeptic, splenetic, choleric
informal snappy, chippy, grouchy, cranky, whingeing, whingy
British informal narky, ratty, eggy, like a bear with a sore head
North American informal sorehead, soreheaded, peckish
Australian/New Zealand informal snaky
dated miffy

Derivatives

crabbily

adverb ...
  • It's another one of his riddles, she thought crabbily.
  • Somehow it came out sounding exactly right for its wild title, crabbily fluid with sudden lurches.
  • Slowly stirring, my aching body crabbily reported the casualties of my latest drinking binge.

crabbiness

noun ...
  • Their failure is not simply one of crabbiness or rancour; it's a failure of imagination.
  • But as a natural actor, Murray betrays the sincerity and sensitivity that's being shielded by the crabbiness.
  • Anticipatory exam dread and its accompanying crabbiness seem to have arrived exceptionally early this year.

Rhymes

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