English-Thai Dictionary

crabbed

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CRABBED

a.[from crab. ] 1. Rough; harsh; austere; sour; peevish; morose; cynical; applied to the temper.
2. Rough; harsh; applied to things.
3. Difficult; perplexing; as a crabbed author or subject.

 

CRABBEDLY

adv. Peevishly; roughly; morosely; with perplexity.

 

CRABBEDNESS

n. 1. Roughness; harshness.
2. Sourness; peevishness; asperity.
3. Difficulty; perplexity.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CRABBED

Crab "bed (krb "bd ), a. Etym: [See Crab, n.]

 

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; unpleasant; -- applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.

 

3. Obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed author. "Crabbed eloquence. " Chaucer. How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose. Milton.

 

4. Cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting. -- Crab "bed *ly, adv. -- Crab "bed *ness, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

crabbed

crab bed |ˈkrabd kræbd | ▶adjective 1 (of handwriting ) ill-formed and hard to decipher. • (of style ) contorted and difficult to understand: crabbed legal language. 2 ill-humored: a crabbed, unhappy middle age. DERIVATIVES crab bed ly adverb, crab bed ness noun ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘perverse, wayward ’): from crab 1, because of the crab's sideways gait and habit of snapping, thought to suggest a perverse or irritable disposition.

 

Oxford Dictionary

crabbed

crabbed |ˈkrabɪd, krabd | ▶adjective 1 (of handwriting ) very small and difficult to decipher. • (of style ) contorted and difficult to understand: crabbed legal language. 2 bad-tempered: a crabbed, unhappy middle age. DERIVATIVES crabbedly adverb, crabbedness noun ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘perverse, wayward ’): from crab 1, because of the crab's sideways gait and habit of snapping.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

crabbed

crabbed adjective 1 her crabbed handwriting: cramped, ill-formed, bad, illegible, unreadable, indecipherable, hieroglyphic; shaky, spidery. 2 a crabbed old man. See crabby.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

crabbed

crabbed adjective 1 her handwriting was crabbed and minuscule: cramped, bad, shaky, scribbled, spidery, laboured, illegible, unreadable, indecipherable. ANTONYMS bold; clear. 2 a crabbed old man. See crabby.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

crabbed

crab bed /krǽbɪd /形容詞 1 ｟書 ｠〈字が 〉 (小さく乱雑で )読みづらい, 判読しにくい .2 ｟やや古 書 ｠〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗不機嫌な, 気難しい 〈人 〉(crabby ).