crabbed Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
crab.
verb scurry sideways like a crab
crab.
verb fish for crab
crab.
verb complain
squawk; bellyache; grouse; beef; gripe; holler; bitch; crab.
- What was he hollering about?
adjective satellite annoyed and irritable
crabby; grouchy; ill-tempered; cross; bad-tempered; grumpy; fussy.

See Crab,n.

Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.
Crabbed age and youth can not live together. Shak.
Characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.
Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author. "Crabbed eloquence." Chaucer.
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose. Milton.
Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting. -- Crab"bed*ly, adv. -- Crab"bed*ness, n.