crabbed

From Middle English crabbed; equivalent to crab +‎ -ed.

• IPA^(key): /kɹæbd/
• Rhymes: -æbd

crabbed (comparative more crabbed, superlative most crabbed)

1. Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene i:

     […] O, she is / Ten times more gentle than her father's crabb'd, / And he's composed of harshness.

2. Cramped, bent.
   • c. 1800 Robert Southey, Winter:

     A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee,

     Old Winter, with a rugged beard as grey

     As the long moss upon the apple-tree; […]

3. (of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.

• crabbedly
• crabbedness

crabbed

1. simple past tense and past participle of crab

• crabbid, crabbyd, crabbede

From crabbe +‎ -ed.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrabid/, /ˈkrabɛd/

crabbed

1. immoral, backwards, savage, rapacious
2. crabbed, ill-tempered, vengeful
3. (rare) Moving in reverse.

• crabbednes
• crabbidly

• English: crabbed
• Scots: crabbit

• “crabbed (ppl.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-07.