| 单词 | crabbed |
| 释义 | crabbed (once / 5437 pages) adj If your friend fell out of bed, spilled hot tea on his socks, and tripped in the snow, you might expect him to be crabbed. Crabbed describes someone who is grumpy, or irritable, or has a generally crotchety attitude. The word crabbed originally meant “resembling a crab” and also takes part of its meaning from the sour-tasting crab apple. You can think of crabbed as describing what someone would be like if they were made into a crab. The word is used less often than its synonym crabby, but the meaning of crabbed is just as easy to understand: if you were covered in sand all day, you’d probably feel crabbed too! WORD FAMILYcrabbed: crabbeder, crabbedest, crabbedly, crabbedness+/crab: crabbed, crabbing, crabby, crabs/crabby: crabbier, crabbiest, crabbily, crabbiness USAGE EXAMPLESThe crabbed, balance-sheet approach to the Western alliance ignores the enormous advantages the United States reaps from the existence of other democracies. Wall Street Journal(Nov 15, 2016) Unlike Shannon, Kevin Spacey attacks his character with jowly, slyly stylized gusto, delivering the signature Nixonian tirades with crabbed truculence and flawlessly funny timing. Washington Post(Apr 20, 2016) As a control, researchers also surveyed the undeveloped and less crabbed Little Townsend Creek off Botany Island to the south. Washington Times(Apr 09, 2016) adj annoyed and irritable Syn bad-tempered, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered ill-natured having an irritable and unpleasant disposition |
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