Definitions for crabby

crabby crab·by

Spelling: [krab-ee]
IPA: /ˈkræb i/

Crabby is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in crabby (abbcry).

Definitions for crabby

adjective

  1. Informal. grouchy; ill-natured; irritable; peevish.

Origin of crabby

First recorded in 1540-50; crab3 + -y1

Examples for crabby

Accordingly the Hermit exerted himself to please, and it would really have taken more than three crabby boys to resist him.

Never underestimate the power of “crabby snacks and homemades.”

For us, this is Louis C.K. and his crabby, melancholic, and profanely funny half-hour comedy.

crabby American billionaires want their money back, writes John Avlon.

You know, you crabby dear, you wouldn't neglect an old dog or an old pony after it had served you.

Time was getting short, and it was no use wasting time on my crabby landlady.

Let us go downstairs after old crabby is to bed and play some trick on him.

crabby—old crabby Tompkins, a trapper, is buried in the sand on the Frazer.

There comes a time when a woman has to make up her mind to choose between being called a 'dear old soul' or a 'crabby old thing.'

When the latter arrived he seemed in a crabby frame of mind.

Word Value for crabby
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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