Word Meanings - FRABBIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Crabbed; peevish.

CRABBER
One who catches crabs.
CRABBISH
Somewhat sour or cross. The wips of the most crabbish Satyristes. Decker.
CRABBING
The foghting of hawks with each other. (more info) 1. The act or art of catching crabs.
PEEVISH
1. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. "Her peevish babe." Wordsworth. She is peevish, sullen, froward. Shak. 2. Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction;
PEEVISHLY
In a peevish manner. Shak.
CRABBED
1. 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. 2. Characterized by harshness or roughness;
PEEVISHNESS
The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper. Syn. -- See Petulance.
CRABBY
Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing. "Persius is crabby, because ancient." Marston.
SCRABBLE
1. To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree. Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his
SCRABBED EGGS
A Lenten dish, composed of eggs boiled hard, chopped, and seasoned with butter, salt, and pepper. Halliwell.