crabbing

Meaning of crabbing

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. move sideways or obliquely.
    he began crabbing sideways across the roof
  2. fish for crabs.
    watermen were crabbing on the bay

Old English crabba, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch krabbe, and more distantly to Dutch kreeft and German Krebs ; also to crab3.

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. grumble about something petty.
    on picnics, I would crab about sand in my food
  2. act so as to spoil (something).
    you're trying to crab my act

late 16th century (referring to hawks, meaning ‘claw or fight each other’): from Low German krabben ; related to crab1.

Information about crabbing

  • It is a verb.
  • The plural form of crabbing is: crabbings.
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Hyphenation of crabbing

crab-bing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • crabbing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with crabbing

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