[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

crabbed \crab"bed\ kr?b"b?d, a. see crab,n.
   1. characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or
      moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings,
      disposition, or manners.
      1913 webster

            crabbed age and youth can not live together. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. characterized by harshness or roughness; unpleasant; --
      applied to things; as, a crabbed taste.
      1913 webster

   3. obscure; difficult; perplexing; trying; as, a crabbed
      author. "crabbed eloquence." --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            how charming is divine philosophy
            not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   4. cramped; irregular; as, crabbed handwriting. --
      crab"bedly, adv. -- crab"bedness, n.
      1913 webster
see also:
crab crab"bedly crab"bedness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

crabbed
     see crab
see also:
crab 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

crabbed
     adj : perversely irritable syn: crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy,
            grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered
see also:
crabby cross fussy grouchy grumpy bad-tempered 
ill-tempered 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

crab
     n 1: decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened
          carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax
          and pincers
     2: a quarrelsome grouch syn: crabby person
     3: astrology a person who is born while the sun is in cancer
        syn: cancer
     4: the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from
        about june 21 to july 22 syn: cancer, cancer the crab
     5: the edible flesh of any of various crabs syn: crabmeat
     6: infests the pubic region of the human body syn: crab louse,
         pubic louse, phthirius pubis
     7: a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too
        deeply; "he caught a crab and lost the race"
     v 1: direct an aircraft into a crosswind
     2: scurry sideways like a crab
     3: fish for crab
     4: complain; "what was he hollering about?" syn: gripe, grouse,
         beef, squawk, bellyache, holler
     also: crabbing, crabbed
see also:
crabby person cancer cancer the crab crabmeat crab louse pubic louse 
phthirius pubis gripe grouse beef squawk 
bellyache holler crabbing crabbed 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

142 moby thesaurus words for "crabbed":
   byzantine, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acescent, anile, balled up,
   bearish, beyond one, bitchy, blunt, brusque, cankered,
   cantankerous, choleric, churlish, complex, complicated, confounded,
   confused, convoluted, crab, cramp, cranky, cross, cross-grained,
   crusty, cussed, daedal, debilitated, decrepit, devious, difficult,
   disagreeable, doddered, doddering, doddery, dour, dry, elaborate,
   embrangled, entangled, excitable, feeble, feisty, fossilized,
   fouled up, fractious, garbled, gerontal, gerontic, gloomy, glum,
   green, gruff, hard, hard to understand, huffish, huffy, implicated,
   infirm, intricate, involuted, involved, irascible, irritable,
   jumbled, knotted, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up,
   many-faceted, matted, mazy, mean, meandering, messed up, mixed up,
   morose, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mucked up, multifarious, mummylike,
   obfuscated, obscure, obscured, ornery, overtechnical, palsied,
   papery-skinned, perplexed, perverse, pickled, pungent, ramified,
   ravaged with age, rickety, roundabout, run to seed, rusty,
   saturnine, scrambled, screwed up, sec, senile, shaky, shriveled,
   snappish, snarled, sour, sour as vinegar, soured, sourish,
   spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, stricken in years, subtle, sulky,
   surly, tangled, tangly, tart, tartish, testy, timeworn, tottering,
   tottery, tough, twisted, ugly, unripe, unsweet, unsweetened,
   vinegarish, vinegary, waspish, weak, withered, wizened

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