crabbish

English

Etymology

crab +‎ -ish

Adjective

crabbish (comparative more crabbish, superlative most crabbish)

1. Somewhat sour or cross; crabby.
   • 1606, Thomas Dekker, The Seven Deadly Sinnes of London:

     [He] regardes not the whips of the moste crabbish Satyristes.

2. crablike; resembling a crab, or crab

References

• “crabbish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.