crabbed
Meaning of crabbed
verb
- To fish for crabs.
- To ruin.
- To complain.
- To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- To move (a camera) sideways.
- (World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
- To back out of something.
- (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
- Cramped, bent.
- (of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
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Hyphenation of crabbed
crabbed
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- crabbed is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
crabbed synonyms
Meaning crabby:
crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy
Translation of crabbed
- French: hargneux
- Spanish: áspera, áspero, malhumorado, malhumorada, desabrido, hosco, refunfuñón, refunfuñona
- German: verdrießlich
Words that rhyme with crabbed
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