Antonyms for crabby
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : krab-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkræb i |
Definition of crabby
Origin :- 1520s, in now-obsolete sense "crooked, gnarled, rough," from extended sense of crab (n.1) + -y (2). Meaning "disagreeable, sour, peevish" is attested from 1776, American English. Both senses were found earlier in crabbed.
- adj irritable
- When the latter arrived he seemed in a crabby frame of mind.
- Extract from : « Jokes For All Occasions » by Anonymous
- Let us go downstairs after old Crabby is to bed and play some trick on him.
- Extract from : « The Putnam Hall Rivals » by Arthur M. Winfield
- Crabby—old Crabby Tompkins, a trapper, is buried in the sand on the Frazer.
- Extract from : « The Hunted Woman » by James Oliver Curwood
- You know, you crabby dear, you wouldn't neglect an old dog or an old pony after it had served you.
- Extract from : « A Dream of the North Sea » by James Runciman
- There comes a time when a woman has to make up her mind to choose between being called a 'dear old soul' or a 'crabby old thing.'
- Extract from : « Her Royal Highness Woman » by Max O'Rell
- Time was getting short, and it was no use wasting time on my crabby landlady.
- Extract from : « My Friend Smith » by Talbot Baines Reed
- Accordingly the Hermit exerted himself to please, and it would really have taken more than three crabby boys to resist him.
- Extract from : « A Little Bush Maid » by Mary Grant Bruce
- Persius is crabby, because ancient, and his jerks (being particularly given to private customs of his time) dusky.
- Extract from : « The Works of John Marston » by John Marston
- I entertained myself with keeping her to the subject, and that made her crabby.
- Extract from : « Rene Mauperin » by Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
- I woke disoriented and crabby, without my customary morning jolt of endorphin.
- Extract from : « Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom » by Cory Doctorow
Synonyms for crabby
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- chuffy
- churlish
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- misanthropic
- morose
- mumpish
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
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