crabbed
Middle English
/ˈkrabid/
adj
Definitions
- immoral, backwards, savage, rapacious
- crabbed, ill-tempered, vengeful
- (rare) Moving in reverse.
Etymology
Affix from Middle English crabbe (crabapple, crab, wild apple).
Origin
Middle English
crabbe
Gloss
crabapple, crab, wild apple
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- crab English
- crabbed English
- crabbedly English
- crabbedness English
- crabba Old English
- crabbe Middle English
- crabbednes Middle English
- crabben Middle English
- crabbes Middle English
- crabbidly Middle English