crabbish

English

Etymology

crab +‎ -ish

Adjective

crabbish (comparative more crabbish, superlative most crabbish)

Somewhat sour or cross; crabby.
- 1606, Thomas Dekker, The Seven Deadly Sinnes of London:
  [He] regardes not the whips of the moste crabbish Satyristes.
crablike; resembling a crab, or crab

References

“crabbish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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