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Meanings of crabbed in English

Annoyed and irritable.

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      1
      And the king looked, and saw nothing except the crabbed printed lines.
      Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge ...
      2
      He blinked at the crabbed spidery caligraphy,andhandedthe letterback .
      The Grey Lady
      3
      They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at.
      Wild Apples
      4
      It is, especially such a language as this crabbed but glorious Deutsch.
      Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
      5
      But he was as crabbed an old wretch as you can please.
      The Red Planet
      6
      Instantly he was a valet once more, no longer a crabbed genius.
      A Fool and His Money
      7
      She heard crabbed, sour, but courageous old Williams go to the door.
      The Crimson Blind
      8
      A date nearly a month old crabbed the top of the page.
      The last page
      9
      If anybody disputes this, he must be a sour and crabbed fellow.
      Oscar; Or, The Boy Who Had His Own Way
      10
      But we have been betrayed by a pot-bellied, humpbacked, and crabbed dwarf.
      Four Arthurian Romances
      11
      Then he crabbed over to the cabin door and timed his exit.
      Wild Storm
      12
      A crabbed black and white page is meat and drink to them!
      The Armourer's Prentices
      13
      Nor do I believe anything about his being sorry-thecrabbed, ill-naturedwretch!
      Friends and Neighbors; Or, Two Ways of Living in the World
      14
      We saw most of it as we crabbed over to the right quarter.
      Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
      15
      He did so; and Brother Gimblet listened with a crabbed smile.
      George Silverman's Explanation
      16
      She recognized the crabbed hand writing as that of her step brother Nick.
      The viscount and the virgin
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      United Kingdom
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