| 单词 | crabby |
| 释义 | crabby (once / 79861 pages) adj If you're in a really bad or irritable mood, you can say you're crabby. Loud talking and laughing during a movie might make you crabby. Some unpleasant, bad-tempered people seem to be crabby all the time, while others just become crabby when they're stuck in rush hour traffic. You might decide that the sound of kids yelling and laughing makes you too crabby to be a good elementary school teacher. The original, 16th century meaning of crabby was "crooked" or "rough," with the "cranky" meaning arising in the United States around 1776. WORD FAMILYcrabby: crabbier, crabbiest, crabbily, crabbiness+/crab: crabbed, crabbing, crabby, crabs/crabbed: crabbeder, crabbedest, crabbedly, crabbedness USAGE EXAMPLESBut if you’re a crabby old stick-in-the-mud like me, you might cast a dubious eye on the whole thing. Wall Street Journal(Oct 23, 2016) Trump, in particular, is crabby about the conflict, saying he got a letter from the NFL calling the conflict “ridiculous.” Wall Street Journal(Aug 01, 2016) He was a tall, narrow, disconsolate man who moved with a crabby listlessness. Joseph Heller, Catch-22(1961) adj annoyed and irritable Syn bad-tempered, crabbed, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered ill-natured having an irritable and unpleasant disposition |
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