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Meanings of crabbed in English

Annoyed and irritable.

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Examples for "cross"
Examples for "cross"
1
Thousands of migrants attempt to cross the Mediterranean to Europe every year.
Radio NZ
2
Future studies of comprehensive prenatal case management should focus on cross-level questions.
Pubmed
3
Since Israel's Gaza offensive 18 months ago, cross-border violence has largely abated.
Reuters
4
The rest needs to come from either cross-selling or new growth initiatives.
Reuters
5
How can I cross the swarming sea and reach home at last?'
The Odyssey
1
So much for Chinese food: Half an hour later you're grumpy again.
Double Dexter
2
He was abrupt in manner and grumpy in speech with the seamen.
The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows
3
Sure, there's the Christmas present sorted for your dopey, grumpy younger brother.
The Irish Times
4
And besides, he was most often a grumpy bones about the children.
The viking takes a knight
5
He's a very good manager, but I feel he's been unnecessarily grumpy.
The Guardian
1
Huppert's psychotically fussy performance might as well be happening in a void.
Reuters
2
It's like it was prepared to appease a fussy five year old.
News.com.au
3
Far as the color, I'd say she's not gonna be too fussy.
The burglar who liked to quote kipling
4
Too many pot smokers these days have gotten fussy about their weed.
NY Magazine
5
Joy, on the other hand, had opted for a less fussy costume.
Fiendish deeds
1
Could anyone else handle grouchy, socially hopeless House as well as Wilson?
The Guardian
2
And he is nothing like the grouchy, monosyllabic subject of multiple warnings.
The Irish Times
3
They are never grouchy and they want to hang out with you.
Reuters
4
But then, one of his workers disturbs something ancient and incredibly grouchy.
Fiendish deeds
5
He is a Roman soldier and like all Romans is very grouchy.
Cleopatra's Moon
1
Visitors considered Roman drivers ill-tempered, short of patience, and heavy of foot.
Map of bones
2
Bolsover, meanwhile, snarled over the matter in ill-tempered conclaves in the play-ground.
A Dog with a Bad Name
3
The final match of the ill-tempered series begins in Johannesburg on Friday.
Radio NZ
4
Perhaps he feels the disgrace and it makes him rude and ill-tempered.
The Shuttle
5
Behind me, I heard that porch board give out its ill-tempered squeal.
Revival
1
You're going to wake up, perfectly fine and as crabby as ever.
Sushi for one?
2
My mellow chocolate mood was fading and I was getting crabby fast.
Dying for Dinner (A Cooking Class Mystery)
3
God could, after all, be a consummate craftsman, but a crabby character.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
4
She might be whiny, and snippy, and crabby, but she's no killer.
Alpine for You
5
I can get very impatient and crabby on the home front.
The Guardian
1
Of course, they were all as bad-tempered as orcs on the march.
Shadow prowler
2
Lack of sleep had made her restless, and more than usually bad-tempered.
Dogsbody
3
Secondly, you are bad-tempered and unjust and we are frightened of you.
Five on a treasure island
4
Nobody likes a bad-tempered girl, and I have no use for one.'
The White Princess
5
They grow into cross, bad-tempered men whom nobody likes and nobody trusts.
Jeremy
Usage of crabbed in English
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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Crabbed across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common