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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Crabbed \Crab"bed\ (kr?b"b?d), adjective [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}, adverb -- {Crab"bed*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
crabbed See {crab}
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
crabbed
adjective: perversely irritable [syn: {crabby}, {cross}, {fussy}, {grouchy}, {grumpy}, {bad-tempered}, {ill-tempered}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
crab
noun
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"
verb
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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